Frederick Soddy Quotes

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• 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 transmutation],…
• 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 of…
• The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.
• The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem…
• [This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general…
• In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But…
• Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known,…
• But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
• The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an…
• For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course…
• Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in…
• The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable…
• The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy
• An honest money system is the only alternative.
• Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their…
• 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…
• Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
• I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.
• It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy…
• There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

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