Astronomy Quote by Humphry Davy

[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a…

— Jacob Bronowski

What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system…

— Thomas Kuhn

“ John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician He gained…

— Humphry Davy

“In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that of John…

— Henry Enfield Roscoe

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent,…

— William Winwood Reade

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to…

— Johannes Stark

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist…

— Henry Taube

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

— Neil Gaiman

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself…

— Johannes Stark

Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

— George M. Whitesides

One atom is as purposeful as our planet. What is in one is in the whole.

— Caroline Myss

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

— C. V. Raman