It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can…

— Nicholas Negroponte

When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it…

— Clive James

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

“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

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

“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

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

— Anonymous

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

— Lanford Wilson

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

— Stuart Chase

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

— Swami Vivekananda

[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

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

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

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

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