Atom Quotes

318 quotes by 236 authors

Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with… — Arthur Eddington
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you… — Tom Stoppard
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I… — Albert Einstein
After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to… — Michio Kaku
The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around… — Robert Andrews Millikan
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical… — Werner Heisenberg
The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams… — Lord Kelvin
As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly… — Charles Spurgeon
Now I know what the atom looks like. — Ernest Rutherford
Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet… — Michio Kaku
[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I… — Francis Collins
In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization… — Erwin Schrodinger
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum… — Freeman Dyson
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that… — Khalil Gibran
You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire… — Erwin Chargaff
Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject… — Otto Robert Frisch
There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom — Robert Andrews Millikan
Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage,… — Marcellin Berthelot
Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of Nature, with its… — Owen Gingerich
All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces… — Alexandra David-Neel

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