All Frederick Soddy Quotes
- 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],… Atomic
- 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… Been
- The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Air
- 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… Alone
- [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… Any
- 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… Accounted
- 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,… Application
- But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. Crime
- 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… Abruptly
- 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… Any
- 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… Always Drawn
- 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… Available
- The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy Amount
- An honest money system is the only alternative. 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… All
- 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… Belief
- Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. Austere
- 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. Atomic
- It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy… Agent
- There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. Aloofness