Atoms Quote by Democritus

By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is…

— Democritus

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

— Democritus

According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In…

— Democritus

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

— Democritus

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

— Democritus

Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

— Democritus

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

— Anonymous

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

— Lanford Wilson

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

— Stuart Chase

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science.…

— Francis Collins

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space…

— Martin Rees