Air Quote by Democritus

Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns,…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls. That’s kindergarten…

— Sol Luckman

We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically…

— Timothy Leary

On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize…

— Christopher Alexander

The atoms may be compared to the letters of the alphabet, which can be put together into innumerable ways to form words. So the…

— William Henry Bragg

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And…

— Richard Dawkins

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

— Albert Einstein

At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

— Carl Sagan

“The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For nothing is…

— Lucretius

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

And in the end, we are only atoms. Drifting alone, desperate for something to cling on to.

— Anonymous