Atoms Quotes

572 Atoms quotes by 390 unique authors

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts. — Werner Heisenberg
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms… — Christopher Hitchens
That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means -… — Peter Ritchie Calder
We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial… — Lewis Thomas
The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to… — H. L. Mencken
The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon… — H. L. Mencken
Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds… — Donald E. Westlake
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a… — Alexander Pope
Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face. — Mahmud Shabistari
There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art… — Emily Bronte
The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality. — Dalai Lama
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the… — Bernard Baruch
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of… — Vaclav Havel
Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the… — George M. Whitesides
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections. — George M. Whitesides
When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction.… — Alan Guth
Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are… — Eduardo Galeano
As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room. — Tim Crouch
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set… — Martin Rees
I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling… — Kyle MacLachlan
In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially… — Mitch Kapor
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… — William Henry Bragg
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… — William Henry Bragg

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