Atomic Structure Quotes:

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Change, Humility, Learning, Information Science, Good Science

We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Together, Body, Atomic Structure

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

- Johannes Stark

topic: Problem, Scientist, Structure, Follow Up, Atomic Structure

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

- Johannes Stark

topic: Expression, Important, Different, Atomic Structure

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

- Barry Commoner

topic: Technology, Law, Inheritance, Thermodynamics, Amenable

Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.

- Tom Robbins

topic: Truth, Blue, Balls, Allegory, Hypothetical

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

- Carl David Anderson

source: Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”

topic: Clouds, Fundamentals, Systematic, Wilson, Atomic Structure

There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Organization, Elements, Body, Atomic Structure, Human Body