Atoms Quotes

572 Atoms quotes by 390 unique authors

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
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may… — Henry Taube
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
The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more… — Stephen Hawking
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. — Colin McGinn
We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The… — John Templeton
The Universal mind is not only intelligence, but it is substance, and this substance is the attractive force which brings electrons together by the law… — Charles F. Haanel
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
'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists… — Edward Robert Harrison
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
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced… — John Jacob Abel
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
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an… — August Kekule
Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis. — Edwin Conklin
By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention colour is colour.… — Democritus
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Unknown Author
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
To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms,… — Henry Lipson

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