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• The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the… — Frederick Soddy
• [Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to… — Adam Sedgwick
• Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often… — Charles Lyell
• The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation… — Roderick Murchison
• If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction… — 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:… — Rajneesh
• Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles… — Isaac Newton
• Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by… — Jonathan Franzen
• The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
• Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies… — Asger Jorn
• And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never… — Dean H. Kenyon
• In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation. — Edwin Way Teale

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