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• With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge of the positions and intensities of the spectra does not suffice for the determination of the structure. The phases with which the diffracted waves vibrate relative to one another enter in an essential way. To determine a crystal structure on the atomic scale, one must know the phase differences between the different interference spots on the photographic plate, and this task may certainly prove to be rather difficult.

  Max von Laue

  Determination, Knowledge, Science

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• There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Science, Technology, Men

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• The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of the total state being compounded of a number of separate changes each of which is solely due to a separate portion of the preceding state.

  Arthur David Ritchie

  Independent, Exercise, Science

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• Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe is also weird, with its laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it passes beyond the scale of our comprehension.

  Freeman Dyson

  Law, Choices, Mind

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Brain, Religion, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet reception?' Well, in some sense, yeah. ... All the wonders of quantum physics were learned basically from looking at atom-smasher technology. ... But let me let you in on a secret: We physicists are not driven to do this because of better color television. ... That's a spin-off. We do this because we want to understand our role and our place in the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Technology, Discovery, Color

  "Discovery of Doom? Collider Stirs Debate" by Alan Boyle, September 8, 2008.

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• The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Freedom, Thinking

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• There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.

  Anthony Marra

  Memories, Years, Family And Friends

  Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.132, Random House

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• We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.

  Arianna Huffington

  Rain, Fall, Home

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.152, Harmony

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• 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!

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Thinking, Way, Potatoes

  "Ideas, Not Plots, Inspire Jean-Luc Godard" by David Sterritt, www.csmonitor.com. August 03, 1994.

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• We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Fields, Different

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming". www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars. … The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Heart, Oxygen

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• There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dog, Stars, Dna

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• Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion of the universe and giving birth to all the energy and all the matter we know today. I know that sounds crazy, but there’s strong observational evidence to support the Big Bang theory. And it includes the amount of helium in the cosmos and the glow of radio waves left over from the explosion.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Crazy, Space

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• One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Infancy Is, Matter

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.49, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

  Al Pacino

  Dream, Ego, Grease

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• Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Wall, Tissues

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• Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

  Richard Dawkins

  Order, Brain, Size

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• Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge. We're like children casually playing with an atom bomb.

  Alex Scarrow

  Children, Powerful, Bombs

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• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Nuclear, Investing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1932.

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• Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Blow, Rags

  "The Mysterious Stranger". Book by Mark Twain, 1916.

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• She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

  Henry James

  Sunshine, Rome, Stones

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.2629, e-artnow

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• Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.

  Lady Gaga

  Memories, Forever, Physics

  "Lady Gaga is 'Interrupted' in 'Marry the night' preview" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

  Brian Cox

  Stars, Heart, Dying

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• It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

  Karl Popper

  Simple, Nihilism, Bombs

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