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Quotes About Atom

Never trust an atom. They make up everything.
~ Nancy Thayer
physicist Werner Heisenberg, whose famed uncertainty principle says that you can know the position of an electron as it orbits the nuclear heart of an atom, or you can know its velocity, but that you can't know both at once.
~ Natalie Angier
This is how she understands it: life on this planet gets developed by some powerful force contained in every atom of organic matter. It's a force there is no physical evidence of, for the time being- you can't catch it on even the most precise microscopic images, nor in photographs of the atomic spectrum.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Patience, patience. Patience dans l'azur chaque atome de silence est la chance d'un fruit mûr !
~ Paul Valery
The intense atom glowsA moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The leprous corpse, touch'd by this spirit tender, Exhales itself in flowers of gentle breath; Like incarnations of the stars, when splendour Is chang'd to fragrance, they illumine death And mock the merry worm that wakes beneath; Nought we know, dies. Shall that alone which knows Be as a sword consum'd before the sheath By sightless lightning?—the intense atom glows A moment, then is quench'd in a most cold repose.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
During the Trinity test of the very first atom bomb, Fermi wondered if the detonation would ignite the Earth's atmosphere. They just didn't know, you see. We think the quantum disruption won't propagate. If it does, then the whole universe gets converted into energy.
~ Peter F. Hamilton