William Henry Bragg Quotes

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• Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of…
• From religion comes a man's purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one…
• The atoms may be compared to the letters of the alphabet, which can be put together into innumerable ways to form words. So the atoms…
• Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the…
• The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no…
• In a gas, motion has the upper hand; the atoms are moving so fast that they have no time to enter into any sort of…
• Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of…
• Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain…
• The difference between a gas and a liquid is that in the former, the atoms and molecules move to and fro in an independent existence,…
• When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift…
• The infinite variety in the properties of the solid materials we find in the world is really the expression of the infinite variety of the…

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