Atom Quotes

“Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.”
Rene Daumal

“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount”

“I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.”

“Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.”

“The theory of relativity is just as unacceptable to me as, say, the existence of the atom or other such dogmas.”
Ernst Mach

“Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us-Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.”

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.
Johannes Stark

For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom.
Ernest Lawrence

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.
Johannes Stark

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Omar N. Bradley

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.
Johannes Stark

“The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”

“It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.”
Aleister Crowley

“The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.”

“The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.”
Rene Magritte

“There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom”







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