It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ... in the whole record of human experience, and they control, in the last resort, the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own. — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
[The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain.… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image