"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless……" — Frederick Soddy
"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."
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Frederick Soddy
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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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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
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