Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted,… — Marcus Chown Copy Share Image
Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from… — Henry Moseley Copy Share Image
If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master… — Harry Woodburn Chase Copy Share Image
Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
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Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what… — Otto Robert Frisch Copy Share Image
The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Atom bombs, something's wrong. D.E.A sent to Guam. Acid Trips, big fat chics. Purple Finstone Vitamins.All the needy rich are greedy. I… — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
And each year now we know more, but we know no better — what we see in the sky is simply the… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What the ultrafast laser does is that because it doesn't have to just cut from the surface, it's only at the intense… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
We proved that we could increase laser intensity by orders of magnitude. In fact, CPA led to the most intense laser pulses… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
![“The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around on dry goods boxes at every corner [viz. the cubic atom], ready to shake hands with, or hold on to similar loafer electrons in other atoms.” quote by Robert Andrews Millikan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ac/robert-andrews-millikan-21380_america_the-chemist-in-america-has-in-general-be_2661559.png)
![“No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.” quote by Andrew Sean Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/346/andrew-sean-greer-2689_atoms_no-one-would-have-known-from-how-he-held_1592335.png)
![“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections. [About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]” quote by Niels Bohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/412/niels-bohr-4542_analogy_we-must-be-clear-that-when-it-comes-to-a_2898071.png)
![“Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a telegraph key in a tabletop circuit demonstrating an RCA atomic battery as a power source.]” quote by David Sarnoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdc/david-sarnoff-18253_atoms_atoms-for-peace-man-is-still-the-greates_2012557.png)
