Quotes by Atoms Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections. George M. Whitesides atoms connections together Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips. George M. Whitesides electronics atoms demand A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer. George MacDonald atoms freedom men Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything! Gerard De Nerval atoms might science It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice. Gerry Spence atoms anomalies justice We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms. Gilbert N. Lewis molecules atoms groups Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things. Gottfried Leibniz atoms words-of-wisdom elements There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun. Greg Bear atoms wish fun There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. Harold E. Varmus atoms three science The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. Harold Innis atoms bombs age There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody--I AM! Henry Adams atoms church ideas Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. Herbert Turnbull fingers atoms mathematics She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine. Henry James atoms rome sunshine We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image! Friedrich Nietzsche atoms space body It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, however, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine-the imago dei-image of God, it is sometimes called. And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case love's bombardment Huston Smith atoms energy sun When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms. Ingmar Bergman capricious atoms doe An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways. Isaac Asimov atoms weapons way It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways. Isaac Asimov atoms poor way The function of man is to live, not to exist. Jack London short-life atoms men Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable. J. K. Rowling atoms wall children «1234567891011»
