Astronomy Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond…

— Niels Bohr

“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state…

— Pierre Simon de Laplace

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of…

— Arthur Eddington

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

— Ramana Maharshi

Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many…

— Lucretius

“The atom was split by persistence.”

— Walter Kirn

I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.

— Paul Tibbets

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Whoever has Heart's doors wide open, could see the Sun itself in every atom.

— Rumi

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

— Albert Einstein

At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they…

— James Clerk Maxwell