Francis William Aston quotes
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“Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936)”
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“[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.”
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“It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.”
-- Francis William AstonSource : Nobel Lecture, 1922.
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“If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles.”
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“Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction, but the remotest possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable and by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event, the whole of the hydrogen on earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.”
-- Francis William AstonSource : Nobel Lecture, 1922.
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“All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.”
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“Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.”
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“Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!”
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“I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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