Atoms Quotes

572 Atoms quotes by 390 unique authors

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. — Mark Twain
I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some… — Albert Einstein
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at… — Albert Einstein
Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge.… — Alex Scarrow
Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved… — Richard Dawkins
The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories. — Russell Brand
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect… — Al Pacino
One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all… — Christopher Hitchens
Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion of the universe and giving birth to all the energy and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is… — Neil Gaiman
In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not… — Jean-Luc Godard
We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home. — Arianna Huffington
I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well. — David Gilmour
Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest… — Michael Denton
You will find scientists who will tell you — and they deeply believe it — that we’re quantifiable. We are knowable. That if I can… — Jad Abumrad
If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide.… — Jeremy Narby
Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but… — Aldo Leopold
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women… — Henry Adams
The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly… — Richard Henry Lee
If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms. — Swami Vivekananda
The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. — Democritus
Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist — Democritus
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. — Rene Magritte

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