"With all our mastery over the powers of……" — 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 necessary condition of life."
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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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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but…
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In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from…
— Michael Denton
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You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not…
— Peter J. Daniels
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Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered…
— Bernard Lown
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I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.
— Joseph Brodsky
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Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I…
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Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered…
— Wilfrid Laurier
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I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible…
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to…
— Rachel Nichols
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Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.
— Isaac Asimov
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Women want their love to be reciprocated in the same way they give it; they want their romantic lives to…
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