John Dalton Quotes

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 “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.

John Dalton

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• I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Like
  • Chosen

• I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wear

• We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people.

  

  Boomer Esiason
  • People
  • Atoms
  • Entertain

• And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Black
  • Liberation
  • Movements

• It was in the back of my mind, even while I was going to school, but it wasn't until I was at university studying engineering that I thought, well what do I really want to do? And I kind of came back to that and I said, well the degrees I'm trying to get are going to qualify me to apply. And so, that's what I did after I finished my, or after I was getting my doctorates. That's when I first applied to NASA.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • School

• I think that it's unfortunate that we have allowed politics to use theology to hit areas that we sincerely want to support. But I think that they are using us to some degree because they are using what concerns us to isolate us.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Thinking
  • Support
  • Degrees

• The ultimate comfort zone is within.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Ultimate
  • Comfort Zone

• There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Memories
  • Atoms
  • Billions

• For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Peace
  • Conclusion
  • Division

• The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Real
  • Differences
  • Degrees

• ...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.

  

  Chris Marker
  • Country
  • Taken
  • Chance

• I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Emotions
  • Crying
  • Extremes

• Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• The loves of men but vary in degrees-- They find no new expression for the flame.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Men
  • Love
  • Degrees

• I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Despair
  • Conviction
  • Intense

• Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Might

• Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

  

  Sadao Araki
  • Giving
  • Army
  • Japanese

• I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.

  

  Eamon Dunphy
  • Memorable
  • Division
  • Thirds

• In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the lack of public school facilities, I began there. I began boarding school at the high school level; in fact, a year below the high school level.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Message
  • Senator
  • Joe Lieberman

• Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Imagination

• Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

  

  Keith Johnstone
  • Thinking
  • Teacher
  • Immature

• 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 “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.

  

  John Dalton
  • Degrees
  • Ultimate
  • Chosen