Atom Quotes
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“Materialism”
“Consciousness”
“I don't believe that atoms exist!”
“Atoms are round balls of wood invented by Dr. Dalton.”
“For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
“A History of Western Philosophy#Chapter IX. The Atomists”
“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”
“Wikipedia: Atom”
“Wiktionary: Atom”
“Wikicommons: Atoms”
“Nothing exists, save atoms and their combinations. There is no atom, which wouldn't periodically take part in life.”
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
“A man concerned about the state of his soul will not usually be much helped by thinking about the spheres or the structure of the atom.”
“The Atoms of Democritus
And Newton's Particles of light
Are sands upon the Red sea shore
Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.”
“Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.”
“Another way to remember their size is this: if an apple is magnified to the size of the earth, then the atoms in the apple are approximately the size of the original apple.”
“… A particle, on the other hand, has discrete properties which it carries with it. And so the remarkable thing was the discovery, in investigations of various atomic phenomena, of an apparent paradox.”
“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.”
“… Several of Thomson’s colleagues thought he was joking when he argued that the electron was smaller than the atom and was a constituent of every atom; to many scientists, the idea that there could exist matter smaller than the atom was inconceivable. Yet he was proved right.”
“As for the atoms, they have been in far worse rows before they became naturalised in my brain, but they forget the days before, etc. At any rate the atoms are a very tough lot, and can stand a great deal of knocking about, and it is strange to find a number of them combining to form a man of feeling.”