Atoms Quotes - Page 6

There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

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!

There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.

Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.

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.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom.

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.

Whoever has Heart's doors wide open, could see the Sun itself in every atom.

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

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

That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.