Atoms Quotes:

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

topic: Doe, Atoms, Matter

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

topic: Space, Atoms, Matter

There are more potential combinations of DNA [physical forms] than there are atoms in the universe.

topic: Science, Together, Atoms, Petunias, Biological Evolution

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

topic: Dna, Atoms, Form

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Doe, Atoms, Flavor

If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice to produce one Faced with the enormous sum of lucky draws behind the success of the evolutionary game, one may legitimately wonder to what extent this success is actually written into the fabric of the universe.

- Christian de Duve

topic: Cells, Games, Atoms

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable....

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Ideas, Progress, Atoms, Never Ending

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.

- Christopher Hitchens

source: Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.67, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Ideas, Atoms, Matter, Infancy Is, Subtle Atheist

The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.

- Daniel Mainwaring

topic: Mind, Atoms, Able

You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything is within us, every atom of the universe, and that we already possess everything we would wish to find outside of ourselves.

- Daniel Odier

source: Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wish, Altered States Of Consciousness, Atoms, Altered States, Self Consciousness

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

- Daniel Quinn

topic: Moon, People, Atoms

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

- David Eagleman

source: David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives”, p.84, Vintage

topic: Different, Atoms, Body, Quarks

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

- David McCord

topic: Life, Atoms, Gone, Ergs

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

- David R. Brower

topic: Years, Atoms, Four

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

- David R. Brower

topic: Beautiful, People, Atoms, Different Eras, New Era

Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth.

- David Sarnoff

topic: Men, Miracle, Atoms

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Destiny, Atoms, Cosmos

98% of the atoms in your body were not there a year ago.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Years, Atoms, Body

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

- Democritus

topic: Space, Principles, Atoms

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

- Democritus

topic: Science, Differences, Atoms, Inclination, Arrangements

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

- Diana Vreeland

topic: Important, Atoms, Bombs, Splitting The Atom

There is no such word as 'too late,' in the wide world â€” nay, not in the universe. What! shall we, whose atom of time is but a fragment out of an ever-present eternity â€” shall we, so long as we live, or even at our life's ending, dare to cry out to the Eternal One, 'It is too late!'

- Dinah

topic: Long, World, Atoms

For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Atoms, World, Earth

Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories

- Eduardo Galeano

source: "Eduardo Galeano, Chronicler of Latin America’s 'Open Veins,' on His New Book 'Children of the Days'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2013.

topic: Bird, Atoms, Stories

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.

- Edward Everett

source: Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.655, Рипол Классик

topic: Break Up, Atoms, Elements, Roman Empire, Repulsion

Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.

- Edward Frenkel

source: Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.5, Basic Books

topic: Stars, Curves, Atoms

If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.

- Elizabeth Wein

topic: Liars, Compassion, Atoms, Devious

From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with nitrogen are not nitrogen atoms but probably atoms of hydrogen, or atoms of mass 2. If this be the case, we must conclude that the nitrogen atom is disintegrated under the intense forces developed in a close collision with a swift alpha particle, and that the hydrogen atom which is liberated formed a constituent part of the nitrogen nucleus.

- Ernest Rutherford

topic: Long, Hydrogen, Atoms, Hydrogen Atom, Nitrogen

Now I know what the atom looks like.

- Ernest Rutherford

source: "Rutherford, Simple Genius". Book by David Wilson, 1983.

topic: Atoms, Looks, Experiments

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

- Ernst Mach

topic: Littles, Atoms, Dogma, Theories Of Relativity

You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life.

- Erwin Chargaff

source: Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.189, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

topic: Moon, Population, Atoms, Splitting The Atom

I'm aware there are certain products that are being advertised - food products - with 'no chemicals whatsoever.' Well, that would be pretty hard to arrange, since everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules - chemicals - including ourselves.

- Francis Collins

topic: Molecules, Atoms, Would Be

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.

- Francis William Aston

topic: Distance, Science, Atoms, Distance Apart

Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

- Fred Hoyle

topic: Atoms, Would Be, Chance

The savages don't have atom bombs.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

topic: Atoms, Savages, Bombs, Atom Bomb

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

- George M. Whitesides

topic: Together, Connections, Atoms

Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.

- George M. Whitesides

topic: Atoms, Demand, Electronics, Width

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

- George MacDonald

topic: Freedom, Men, Atoms

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

- George Wald

source: Foreword to L. J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment (1958)

topic: Science, Knowing, Atoms, Science Physics

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

- Gerard De Nerval

source: Martin Esslin (2009). “The Theatre of the Absurd”, p.16, Vintage

topic: Lying, Evil, Atoms, Splitting The Atom, Unimportant Things

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!

- Gerard De Nerval

topic: Atoms, Might, Indifferent

We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.

- Gilbert N. Lewis

topic: Groups, Molecules, Atoms, Electrons, Completing

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

- Gottfried Leibniz

topic: Words Of Wisdom, Atoms, Elements

In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match our beliefs, we're limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world.

- Gregg Braden

topic: Thinking, Cells, Atoms

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

- Harold E. Varmus

topic: Science, Atoms, Three

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

- Harold Innis

source: Harold A. Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.17, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

topic: Age, Atoms, Bombs, Modern Age, Atom Bomb

In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum. Chromium. Manganese. Iron. Nickel. Cobalt. and Copper and part of the Silver spectrum. The chief result is that all the elements give the same kind of spectrum, the result for any metal being quite easy to guess from the results for the others. This shews that the insides of all the atoms are very much alike, and from these results it will be possible to find out something of what the insides are made up of.

- Henry Moseley

source: "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915" by J. L. Heilbron, University of California Press, (p. 209), 1974.

topic: Iron, Giving, Atoms, Nickels, Copper

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

- Herbert Turnbull

topic: Atoms, Mathematics, Fingers, Fortuitous

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

- Ingmar Bergman

topic: Doe, Atoms, Capricious

It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Differences, Mind, Atoms

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

- Jack London

topic: Sleep, Atoms, Meteors

Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.

- Jane Roberts

topic: Law Of Attraction, Atoms, Consciousness

In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

- Jean-Luc Godard

source: "Ideas, Not Plots, Inspire Jean-Luc Godard" by David Sterritt, www.csmonitor.com. August 03, 1994.

topic: Thinking, Atoms, Way

The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Stars, Years, Atoms

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

- Jimmy Greaves

topic: Football, Atoms, Tactics, Splitting The Atom

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

topic: Taken, Humanity, Atoms

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.

topic: Light, Atoms, Wave, Light Waves, Oscillation

In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.

topic: Atoms, Done, May

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

topic: Views, Atoms, Lines, Interconnected

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

topic: Discovery, Atoms, Facts

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

topic: Atoms, Structure, Chemicals

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

topic: Atoms, Compounds, Exception

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

topic: Mean, Atoms, Fundamentals, Electrons

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

topic: Ions, Giving, Atoms, Stationary

Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word â€œatomâ€ to signify these ultimate particles.

topic: Experience, Rays, Atoms, Electrons, Electrical

- John Dalton

topic: Degrees, Atoms, Division

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

- John Gribbin

topic: Reality, Everyday, Atoms, Particles, Significant Things

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

- John Smith

source: John Smith, Simon Patrick, John Worthington (1821). “Select discourses”, p.53

topic: Atoms, Mutation, Generations, Fortuitous

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

- Jojo Moyes

topic: Airports, Opposites, Atoms, Strain

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Dancing, Atoms, Bombs

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

- Juan Trippe

topic: Destiny, Air, Atoms, Atom Bomb

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

- K. Eric Drexler

source: Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

topic: Atoms, Machines, Patterns

I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.

- Kami Garcia

source: Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Darkness”, p.26, Hachette UK

topic: Cells, Atoms, Burning

He knows what I'm thinking. Always. We're connected. The atoms between us ferry messages back and forth.

- Karen Marie Moning

topic: Thinking, Atoms, Messages, Ferry, Back And Forth

With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.

- Karl Donitz

source: Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

topic: Russia, Atoms, Use

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

- Kelly Easton

source: Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

topic: Stars, Atoms, Earth

It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying "How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.

- L. Ron Hubbard

topic: Responsibility, Atoms, Nuclear, Fission, Nuclear Fission

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

- Lanford Wilson

topic: Atoms, Bombs, Firsts, Atom Bomb

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

- Langston Hughes

topic: Fall, Together, Atoms, Atom Bomb

He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion'.....

- Leon M. Lederman

topic: Two, Space, Atoms, Intuitive

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

- Leonard Louis Levinson

topic: History, Atoms, Adam

No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Atoms, Pieces, Stuff, Mustard, Mustard Seed

I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Believe, Atoms

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

- Lord Byron

topic: Stars, Infinity, Atoms

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

- Lord Kelvin

topic: Dream, Atoms, Vortex

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

topic: Mountain, Stronger, Atoms

At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!

topic: Believe, Hands, Atoms

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

topic: Science, Past, Atoms, Infinite Time

- Lucy Larcom

source: Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

topic: Splendor, Atoms, Alive, Depreciate

Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face.

- Mahmud Shabistari

source: Mahmud Shabistari (2002). “The Secret Rose Garden”, p.14, Red Wheel/Weiser

topic: Soul, Atoms, Veils

Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline and development are related to the smallest things. Conscience, like gravitation, takes hold of atoms. Nothing is morally indifferent. Conscience must reign in manners as well as morals, in amusements as well as work. He only who is "faithful in that which is least" is dependable in all the world.

- Maltbie Davenport Babcock

topic: Discipline, Faithful, Atoms, Gravitation

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

- Manly Hall

topic: Atoms, Universe

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

- Marcellin Berthelot

topic: Christian, Believe, Atoms

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers

- Marcus du Sautoy

topic: Oxygen, Numbers, Atoms

Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Moving, Atoms, Energy, Proximity, Harmonious

During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.

- Martin Rees

topic: Essence, Together, Atoms, Assemblage

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

- Mia Couto

topic: Cells, Stories, Atoms

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

- Michael Shermer

topic: Brain, Molecules, Atoms

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

- Muriel Rukeyser

topic: Stories, World, Atoms

I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Grieving, Atoms, Unnecessary

The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Stars, Crucible, Atoms, Stardust

The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Stars, Years, Atoms, Galaxy, Stardust

UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Science, Atoms, Flesh, High Energy

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

- Nicholas Negroponte

source: "Being Digital". Book by Nicholas Negroponte, 1995.

topic: Differences, Yesterday, Atoms, Why Now, Small Differences

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

- Niels Bohr

topic: Alaska, Atoms, Way

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

- Niels Bohr

topic: Atoms, Language, Used, Quantum Mechanics

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

- Omar N. Bradley

source: Speech on Armistice Day, Boston, Mass., 11 Nov. 1948

topic: Atoms, Mystery, Rejected, Atomic Weapons, Nuclear Weapons

Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Vibrations, Energy, Atoms

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

- Paul Dirac

topic: World, Atoms, Opinion

I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.

- Paul Tibbets

topic: Atoms

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

- Penelope Lively

topic: Atoms, World, Language

Science can explain what's happening down inside atoms and what's happening at the edge of the universe, but it cannot explain consciousness. It's a paradox--withou t consciousness there would be no science, but science doesn't know what to do, at all, with consciousness.

- Peter Russell

topic: Would Be, Atoms, Consciousness

Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself...

- Philip Jose Farmer

topic: Light, Atoms, Heirs

Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

topic: Expression, Atoms, Energy, Unifying

On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

- Pieter Zeeman

topic: Moving On, Atoms, Lines, Electrons

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

- Quentin Reynolds

topic: Splits, Atoms, Scientist, Splitting The Atom, Splitting

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

- Rene Magritte

topic: Bombs, Atoms, Mediocrity, Atom Bomb

Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Order, Brain, Atoms

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

- Richard P. Feynman

topic: Stars, Night, Atoms, Natural Science

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

- Richard P. Feynman

topic: Atoms, Cosmology, Universe

Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe

- Rumi

topic: World, Atoms, Infinite, Infinite Universe

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

- Sonya Hartnett

topic: Dying, Atoms, Feels

I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.

- Sophie Swetchine

topic: God, May, Atoms

You can split atoms, but you can't split true love.

- Steve Fowler

topic: Atoms, Splits

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

- Steven Chu

source: "Lasers Slow Atom for Scrutiny". The New York Times, July 13, 1986.

topic: Lasers, Atoms, Intensity, Moths

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

- Stuart Chase

source: "Pennsylvania Technology", Volume 1, No. 3, 1990.

topic: Atoms, World, Nationalism, Modern Warfare 2

You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.

- Studs Terkel

topic: Thinking, Atoms, Splits, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplishedâ€”mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

topic: Moving, Progress, Atoms

Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

topic: Mind, Mountain, Atoms

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Order, Justice, Atoms, Justice And Mercy

The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call 'death.' It's a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead.

- U.G. Krishnamurti

topic: Reality, Atoms, Gone, Energy Levels, Fortuitous

Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

- Victor Grignard

topic: Atoms, Hydrogen, Acid, Organic Compounds, Hydrogen Atom

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Individuality, Atoms, Assuming, Singles, Loving Myself

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

- Werner Heisenberg

topic: Wish, Ordinary, Atoms

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.

- Wilhelm Dilthey

source: Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.61, Princeton University Press

topic: Mean, World, Atoms

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

- Willard Libby

topic: Understanding, Atoms, World, Atomic Energy

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

- William Godwin

topic: Unhappy, Body, Atoms

The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes - that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central point enveloped by an elastic atmosphere, which is retained in its position by attractive forces, and that the elasticity due to heat arises from the centrifugal force of those atmospheres revolving or oscillating about their nuclei or central points.According to this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis viva of the molecular revolutions or oscillations.

- William John Macquorn Rankine

source: William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait (1881). “Miscellaneous Scientific Papers”

topic: Atmosphere, Atoms, Nucleus, Viva, Oscillation

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

- William Kingdon Clifford

topic: Piano, Atoms

We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak of the morals of an atom, or of the way in which a molecule conducts itself. But in the last analysis, science can draw no fundamental distinction between the conduct of an animal, a bullet, or a freshman, although there may be more unknown factors involved in one case than in the other.

- William Patten

topic: Animal, Atoms, Analysis

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

- William Rounseville Alger

source: William Rounseville Alger (1867). “The Solitudes of Nature and of Man, Or, The Loneliness of Human Life”, p.99

topic: Atmosphere, Public Opinion, Atoms

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Science, Atoms, Lovers

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

- William Winwood Reade

source: William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.186

topic: Men, Atoms, Agents, Mathematical Problems, Free Agents

Leave the atom alone.

- Yip Harburg

topic: Science, Atoms

We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!

- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

topic: Choices, Atoms, Pakistan, Atom Bomb

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

- Catherine Wilson

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Animal, Atoms, World

Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are atoms and void, moving and congregating.

- Catherine Wilson

topic: Moving, Atoms, Care, Epicurean

If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic dimensions like electronic ambient music, it's pushes all of that colour to the foreground so you hear little every atom of sound.

- Max Richter

topic: Sound, Atoms, Littles, Ambient, Foreground

It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.

- Paul McEuen

topic: Wall, Vacuums, Atoms

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

- Tim Crouch

topic: Light, Atoms, Actors

I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you just aren't able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms.

- Adam Frank

source: "Doctor Strange Advisor Explains the Science Behind Marvel's Multiverse". Interview with Screenrant, screenrant.com. March 2, 2017.

topic: Law, Understanding, Atoms

If you like, there is a Guinness time. The reason for that it's fundamental. It is not that we have to keep shortening the time. It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them, the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.

- Ahmed H. Zewail

source: Source: www.nobelprize.org

topic: Moving, Atoms, Fundamentals, Guinness

Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equivalent to 4 At.H.

- August Kekule

topic: Details, Atoms, May

Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.

- Bryan Appleyard

topic: Block, Atoms, Fundamentals

No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

- Paul Ehrenfest

topic: Two, Atoms, Stones, Electrons

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

- Frederick Reines

source: Frederick Reines, William R. Kropp, M. Moe, L. Price (1991). “Neutrinos and Other Matters: Selected Works of Frederick Reines”, p.15, World Scientific

topic: Atoms, Conferences, Geneva

Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.

- Wilhelm Rontgen

topic: Distance, Order, Atoms

Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA.

- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

source: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Marcus W. Feldman (1981). “Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach”, p.70, Princeton University Press

topic: Dna, Essentials, Atoms, Discontinuity

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

- Charles de Gaulle

topic: Country, Independent, Atoms, Atom Bomb

The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

- Sri Chinmoy

source: "Meditations: Food For The Soul (June 5)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

topic: Atoms, Littles, Taught

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

- Charlie Chaplin

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Differences, Atoms, Abolish, Atom Bomb

But I tell you - and mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.120, Penguin

topic: Broken, Foam, Atoms, Calmer, Tumult

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.

- Chris Crutcher

topic: Thinking, Numbers, Atoms

There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

- Fred Hoyle

topic: Two, Together, Atoms, Electrons

The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Adonais [ed. by H.B. Forman. Titlepage reprod. from the 1821 ed.].”, p.17

topic: Atoms, Cold, Moments

As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Atoms, Lifetime

Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

topic: Imperfection, Atoms, Venture, Divine Power

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

source: Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

topic: Fall, Atheism, Atoms

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.77, Penguin UK

topic: Space, Atoms, Body

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3152, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Atoms, Invisible, Potency

Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom.

source: Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

topic: Two, Mind, Atoms

Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable, because motion or change is a relative thing; we can only think of something in motion in comparison with something which is not moving.

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3211, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Atoms

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.33, editionNEXT.com

topic: Moving, Thinking, Atoms, Unchangeable