Quotes About Atoms

I have never liked the phrase that says we're just made of dust and return to dust. We are energy, which is interchangeable with light. We are fire and water and earth. We are air and atoms and quarks. Moreover, we are dreams, hopes, and fears held together by wisdom and driven apart by folly. So much more than dust. The biblical verse should say, "Miracle thou art and to Mystery returneth.

Unfortunately, there is much mediocre philosophy in circulation, and so one sometimes hears it said that There is no such thing as a family, only the individuals who make up the family. This is analogous to the claim that There is no such thing as a table, only the atoms that make up the table—which we also hear on occasion. But in reality, there are not only atoms and molecules. There are also tables.

It doesn't matter if the fear you feel is inspired by a collection of atoms in the outside world or by electrical signals manipulated by a computer. The fear is still real. So if you want to explore the reality of your mind, you can do that inside the matrix as well as outside it.

If atoms were no longer tiny bits of matter but ghosts of swirling energy, if the universe operated as a whole rather than as a machine with countless separate parts, if time can bend and two particles separated by billions of light years can communicate instantly, disregarding the speed of light, our understanding of the human body needs to be totally reframed.

By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space;everything else is opinion.

Dans une seule goutte d'eau se trouve un résumé de l'ensemble de la vie, juste en face de nous, dans les cycles continus de l'oxydation et de l'oxydation des atomes d'hydrogène qui y sont.

En una sola gota de agua se encuentra un epítome de toda la vida, justo en frente de nosotros, en los ciclos continuos de oxidación y de-oxidación de los átomos de hidrógeno en el mismo.

Un résumé de l'ensemble de la vie se trouve juste en face de nous, dans les processus perpétuel de re-oxydation et de désoxydation des atomes d'hydrogène, dans une seule goutte d'eau .... c'est aussi l'essence de la vie sur notre planète terre et de l'univers, par la grâce de Dieu.

Un résumé de l'ensemble de la vie sur terre se trouve juste en face de nous, dans les processus perpétuel de re-oxydation et de l'oxydation des atomes d'hydrogène dans une goutte d'eau.

You tell yourself this is no less or more real than bowling at Chipper's.[...] That this moment is the same as every other moment, that it makes no difference to the atoms, to the air, to the creature whose walls breathe all around you.

When the body perishes all perishes but the threads of memory are woven of enduring atoms I will pick these particles weave the threads and I will meet you yet again.

The air we breathe has about 1019 atoms in each cubic centimeter—and we usually think of air as empty space.

We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.

Epicurus ... supposes not only all mixt bodies, but all others to be produced by the various and casual occursions of atoms, moving themselves to and fro by an internal principle in the immense or rather infinite vacuum.

John me explicó que nunca perdemos el cielo. Que lo llevamos dentro. Que todos los átomos que componen nuestro cuerpo algún día se formaron en el interior de las estrellas.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

Life ... is a relationship between molecules.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.