Able Quote by Stanislao Cannizzaro

The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.

— Wolfgang Ostwald

But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very…

— Michael Faraday

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

— Margaret Cavendish

Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom.

— Swami Vivekananda

[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in…

— Frederick Soddy

The atoms may be compared to the letters of the alphabet, which can be put together into innumerable ways to form words. So the…

— William Henry Bragg

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are…

— Samuel Butler

If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of…

— John Ruskin

“As if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.”

— Douglas Adams

If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the…

— Lucretius

The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is…

— August Kekule

Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer…

— Ambrose Bierce