Atoms Quotes

• 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.

  

  Will Yun Lee
  • World
  • Changes
  • Sciences

• If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Earth
  • Size
  • Apples

• So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • World
  • Remember
  • Together

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

  

  Stuart Chase
  • World
  • Traditional
  • Nationalism

• 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
  • Science
  • Distance
  • Normal

• Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Interests
  • Degree
  • Social Life

• I fell into a reverie, and lo, the atoms were gamboling before my eyes.

  

  August Kekule
  • Eyes
  • Atoms
  • Reverie

• 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
  • Body
  • Made
  • Unhappy

• Progressively higher levels of organization are attained as catalytic cycles on one level interlock and form hypercycles: these are systems on a higher level of organization. Thus molecules emerge from a combination of chemically active atoms; protocells emerge from sequences of complex molecules; eukaryotic cells emerge among the prokaryotes; metazoa make their appearance among the protozoa and converge in still higher-level ecological and social systems.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Organization
  • Emerge
  • Molecules

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

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Accept
  • Relativity
  • Dogmas

• Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than the one used by Lord Kelvin: Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water, then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter thoroughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if you then took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Water
  • Audience
  • Ocean

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Science
  • Easy
  • Lovers

• It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Chance
  • Luck
  • Survive

• 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
  • Long
  • Difficult
  • Force

• If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • War
  • Reason
  • Greater

• It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Science
  • Phenomena
  • Self-created

• It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.

  

  Carleton S. Coon
  • Men
  • Trying
  • May

• 'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms.

  

  Edward Robert Harrison
  • Reality
  • Illusion
  • Convention

• We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

  

  Niels Bohr
  • Poetry
  • Language
  • Atoms

• Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • World
  • Kind
  • Atheist

• But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Fire

• Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Atoms
  • Bombs
  • Glamour

• In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Language
  • Speak
  • Information

• The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Law
  • Electricity
  • Hypothesis

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