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Men Quotes by Frederick Soddy
- The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation],…
- There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of…
- But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
- For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course…
- The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable…
- The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy
- It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy…
- Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.
- Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of…
- [The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the…
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