Atom Quotes

• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Energy
  • Nuclear
  • Shattered

• What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sad
  • Prejudice
  • ERA

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

  

  Jack London
  • Planet
  • Magnificent
  • Glow

• It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Prejudice
  • Atom
  • Crack

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

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Mystery
  • Atom
  • Sermon

• Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Experience
  • Hope

• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Catastrophe
  • Modes

• Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Body
  • Fact
  • Celestial

• The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Temple
  • Idol

• It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Space
  • Government
  • Universe

• The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Simple
  • Dark
  • Existence

• A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Atom
  • Trunk
  • Dinosaur

• But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Jealous
  • Confess
  • Atom

• Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Idea
  • Resist
  • Particle

• The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  

  Arthur Cecil Pigou
  • Environment
  • Atom
  • Gravitation

• The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Think
  • Changed
  • Splitting

• A diatomic molecule is a molecule with one atom too many.

  

  Arthur Leonard Schawlow
  • Atom
  • Molecule

• Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Pain
  • Sickness
  • Atom

• The separate atoms of a molecule are not connected all with all, or all with one, but, on the contrary, each one is connected only with one or with a few neighbouring atoms, just as in a chain link is connected with link.

  

  August Kekule
  • Connected
  • Atom
  • Molecule

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

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Compassion
  • Liar
  • Devious

• I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, andc., andc., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!

  

  Auguste Laurent
  • Formula
  • Atom
  • Hydrogen

• 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
  • Useless
  • Atom
  • Myriads

• By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Space
  • Universe
  • Atom

• Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.

  

  Albert Goldbarth
  • Sleep
  • Dance
  • Physics

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