2. Atoms would like to be free, too, but they’re not so…

If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be…

— Giulio Natta

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms…

— Samuel Johnson

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space…

— Martin Rees

[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science.…

— Francis Collins

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

— Stuart Chase

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

— Lanford Wilson

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

— Anonymous

“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able…

— Wilhelm Korner

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect…

— Mark Twain

“An atom is mostly made up of empty space. If you remove the empty space from every atom, the entire world's human population could…

— Weike Wang

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by…

— Joseph Addison

“[Think] of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really…

— Steve Grand

The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and we cannot…

— Richard Bach