Quotes About Atoms

You humans make fine fabric and music, eh, but you're lacking in natural philosophy. Everything is made of other, tiny things, and we make some of the smallest do the work for us by bothering them with magnetth.

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

how unordered atoms could group themselves into ever more complex patterns until they ended up manufacturing people.

every element has its own unique 'atomic number', which is the number of protons in its nucleus (and also the number of electrons orbiting

Since we're all composed of matter and energy, doesn't that scientific principle lend credibility to a belief in eternal life?' Mills replied more patiently and politely than I would have, for what the interviewer was saying, translated into English, was no more than: 'When we die, none of the atoms of our body (and none of the energy) are lost. Therefore we are immortal.

You can get 5 million million atoms on the head of a pin", it said. Atoms are dangerous enough – they are what makes the atomic bomb so powerful. So why store them on top of a dangerous sharp object like a pin? They're asking for trouble.

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

We are nothing but a few atoms arranged in an intricate organized way.

Life is nothing but a few ecstatic dancing atoms.

Every thing—every atom is conscious. To find it we have to open our eyes and see with a higher consciousness.

What we call spirit is our universal consciousness. We can also call it atomic consciousness. Every atom is conscious and knows everything that is going on around it at every moment.

Whenever I see all around, I see nothing except atoms & molecules

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.

Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy.

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

By convention sour, by convention sweet, by convention colored; in reality, nothing but Atoms and the Void.

In other words, atoms and elementary particles and matter itself all are probabilities and possibilities, to which we ourselves give form.

The atoms or the elementary particles are not real," Heisenberg said. "They form a world of potentialities and possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

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.

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

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.