Atom Quotes

318 quotes by 236 authors

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write… — Graham Nelson
We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group… — Gilbert N. Lewis
By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the… — Johannes Stark
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate… — Johannes Stark
In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral… — Johannes Stark
The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made… — Johannes Stark
Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all… — Frederick Lenz
What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in… — Frederick Lenz
As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate,… — Frederick Lenz
Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the… — Michael Faraday
Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or… — Kim Stanley Robinson
But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult… — Michael Faraday
But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I… — Arthur Eddington
Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all its different compounds… — Stanislao Cannizzaro
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that… — D. H. Lawrence
I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom. — Linus Pauling
I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of… — Auguste Laurent
One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is… — D. H. Lawrence
The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of SchrÃ¶dinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle. — Arthur Eddington
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and… — Arthur Compton

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