Atom Quotes

318 quotes by 236 authors

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. — Henry Adams
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God… — Annie Besant
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. — Niels Bohr
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. — Omar N. Bradley
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living… — Lord Byron
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror!… — Gerard De Nerval
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war. — Ernest Rutherford
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one. — Mark Twain
Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I… — Deepak Chopra
[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom… — Albert Einstein
It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. — Mahatma Gandhi
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the… — Albert Einstein
A cell is regarded as the true biological atom. — George Henry Lewes
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom… — Eckhart Tolle
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything! — Gerard De Nerval
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to… — Lincoln Steffens

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