Frederick Soddy Quotes

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.

The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.