Atomism Quote by Leon M. Lederman

“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

— Albert Einstein

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

— Jon Elster

“Reductionism in the physical sciences has been challenged by the principle of emergence. The whole system acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot be predicted…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

“We call this atomization after Einstein’s reflection that if you deconstruct any challenge into its basic components, or atoms, and focus on solving them…

— W. Chan Kim

“Reductionism argues that we can learn what 'makes things tick' by looking more closely at matter, examining the underlying units. There are at least…

— Mark Ireland

“Whereas traditional reductionism sought to find the commonality underlying diversity in reference to a shared substance, such as material atoms, contemporary systems theory seeks…

— Ervin Laszlo

Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves…

— Steven Rose

“in the forty-five years centered on 1910, the nature of the atom was first understood—partly by shooting pieces of atoms at atoms and watching…

— Carl Sagan

Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to…

— Richard P. Feynman

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If…

— Albert Einstein

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.

— Quentin Reynolds