Transmutation Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

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],… — Frederick Soddy
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the… — Charles Lyell
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to… — Roderick Murchison
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful… — Marquis de Sade
Brahmacharya is not against sex. If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy: it is not… — Rajneesh
Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which… — Isaac Newton
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and… — Jonathan Franzen
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back againâ€¦, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth. — Asger Jorn
And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed… — Dean H. Kenyon
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation. — Edwin Way Teale
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far… — Charles A. Murray
The Russell Cosmogony with its new concepts of light, matter, energy, electricity and magnetism is a simple yet complete, consistent and workable cosmogony which will… — Walter Russell
Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture… — Peter J. Carroll
The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations. — Isaac Newton
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified. — Alan Watts
Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a… — Frederick Lenz
When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run. — Andy Warhol
In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead… — Rachel Carson

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