Atoms Quotes

There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

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

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

98% of the atoms in your body were not there a year ago.

As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion'.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

Whoever has Heart's doors wide open, could see the Sun itself in every atom.

The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.

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.

Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.