"The fact remains that, if the supply of……" — Frederick Soddy
"The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind."
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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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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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The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy
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