“It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of the temple doors, when the priests lit the fires on the altars, to deceive the populace into ascribing… — 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
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
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… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
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