Frederick Soddy

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

— Frederick Soddy

It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar…

— Frederick Soddy

Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the…

— Frederick Soddy

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

— Frederick Soddy

An honest money system is the only alternative.

— Frederick Soddy

[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

— Frederick Soddy

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the…

— Frederick Soddy

[The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the…

— Frederick Soddy

In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as…

— Frederick Soddy

Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed…

— Frederick Soddy

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a…

— Frederick Soddy

Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the…

— Frederick Soddy

The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the…

— Frederick Soddy

Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far…

— Frederick Soddy

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal…

— Frederick Soddy

There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order…

— Frederick Soddy

I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they…

— Frederick Soddy

Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power,…

— Frederick Soddy

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

— Frederick Soddy

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

— Frederick Soddy

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it…

— Frederick Soddy

Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present…

— Frederick Soddy

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly…

— Frederick Soddy

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated…

— Frederick Soddy

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

— Frederick Soddy