"An atom must be at least as complex…" — William Kingdon Clifford

"An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano."

— William Kingdon Clifford

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30 Quotes by William Kingdon Clifford

William Kingdon Clifford has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded…
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that…
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he…
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or…
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which…
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is…
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready…
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity…
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us…
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the…
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it,…
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

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More Atom Quotes

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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. — Henry Adams
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust… — Annie Besant
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. — Niels Bohr
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. — Omar N. Bradley
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst… — Lord Byron
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything,… — Gerard De Nerval
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance… — Ernest Rutherford
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I… — Mark Twain
Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to… — Deepak Chopra
[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover… — Albert Einstein

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