Atomic energy Quote by Frederick Soddy

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

— Frederick Soddy

It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of…

— Frederick Soddy

Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours…

— Frederick Soddy

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

— Frederick Soddy

An honest money system is the only alternative.

— Frederick Soddy

[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

— Frederick Soddy

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…

— Frederick Soddy

[The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for…

— Frederick Soddy

In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain.…

— Frederick Soddy

Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider…

— Frederick Soddy

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and…

— Frederick Soddy

Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though…

— Frederick Soddy