"The history of man is dominated by, and……" — Frederick Soddy

"The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy"

— Frederick Soddy

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34 Quotes by Frederick Soddy

Frederick Soddy has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph…
There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to…
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach…
The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know…
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes,…
In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be…
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally,…
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as…
For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the…
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But…
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 new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of… — Neil Armstrong
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they… — Neil Armstrong
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just… — Amitabh Bachchan
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't… — David Bailey
But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did… — Christian Bale
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac

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