Frederick Soddy Quotes

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• With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary… Adhered
• On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries. Adversaries
• Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature. Atomic
• Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of… Charge
• The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today. Banking
• Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to… Been
• The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ...… Bondage
• Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides… All
• [The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the… Accepting
• In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before,… Anticipated
• Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of… Actual
• The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things… Air
• There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the… Amount
• To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past… Abolish

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