Toms Quotes

It is not the custom of kings to kill kings.

Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories

In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and in place of its meaningsless chatter about 'love' and 'peace' the voice of the howling wind over its ruins.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying "How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission."

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very visible. Scientists say that all the electricity that is in your body, if put together, can be used to light a five-candle bulb. It is not much. Quantitatively it is not much, quantitatively the atom is not much, but qualitatively... If it explodes, it has tremendous energy in it.

The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality.

The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.