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Quotes About Atom

Of Course - I prayed - And did God Care? He cared as much as on the Air A Bird - had stamped her foot - And cried Give Me - My Reason - Life - I had not had - but for Yourself - 'Twere better Charity To leave me in the Atom's Tomb - Merry, and Nought, and gay, and numb - Than this smart Misery.
~ Emily Dickinson
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
~ Rene Magritte
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.
~ Richard Dawkins
In Clojure, an atom is a special kind of variable whose value is allowed to mutate under very disciplined conditions that are enforced by the swap! function.
~ Robert C. Martin
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED by Robert J. Sawyer I've spent a lot of time watching Earth—more than forty of that planet's years. My arrival was in response to the signal from our automated probe, which had detected that the paper-skinned bipedal beings of that world had split the atom. The probe had served well, but there were some things only a living being could do properly, and assessing whether a lifeform should be contacted by the Planetary Commonwealth was one.
~ Robert Silverberg
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.
~ Ernest Rutherford
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
~ Albert Einstein
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!
~ Gerard de Nerval
The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
~ Arthur Eddington
A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
~ George Henry Lewes
An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
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.
~ Lord Kelvin
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!
~ Ravi Gomatam
The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.
~ Richard Henry Lee
Maybe when a planet's inhabitants begin to comprehend the true nature of the atom and all the energy it contains they become too dangerous to be allowed loose in the universe.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
~ Albert Einstein
The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality.
~ Dalai Lama
Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face.
~ Mahmud Shabistari
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
~ Albert Einstein
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
~ Albert Einstein
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
~ Albert Einstein
Il est plus facile de désintégrer un atome qu'un préjugé
~ Albert Einstein
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.
~ Albert Einstein