"Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal……" — Frederick Soddy
"Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful."
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34 Quotes by Frederick Soddy
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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…
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There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to…
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The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach…
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The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know…
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[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes,…
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In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be…
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Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally,…
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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
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The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as…
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For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the…
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Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But…
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The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content…
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More Austere Quotes
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
— Annie Besant
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts…
— Geraldine Brooks
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In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none…
— Elinor Wylie
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away…
— Rajneesh
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
— Ansel Adams
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When…
— Kingsley Amis
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Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.
— Corbin Bernsen
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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices.…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a…
— Alexander Herzen
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