Atoms Quotes - Page 9

• All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.

  Max Planck

  Matter, Virtue, Force

  "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, 2008.

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• The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Thinking, Air

  "The Common Sense of Science". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1951.

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• Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.

  Fritjof Capra

  Nature, Block, Science

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• There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Views, Law

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

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• That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means - Nothing !

  Peter Ritchie Calder

  Mean, Science, Thinking

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• We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial cell. We have a wilderness of mystery to make our way through in the centuries ahead.

  Lewis Thomas

  Science, Cells, Bangs

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• Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe.

  Rumi

  World, Infinite, Behinds

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• The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Truth, Honesty

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Cells, Elephants, Hydrogen Atom

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• Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Energy, Collaboration

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 22, 2015

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• One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Moving, Progress, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1182, Manonmani Publishers

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• To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

  William Cowper

  Science, Design, Signatures

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.148

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• Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Discovery, Mind, Culture

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• Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Support, Ego, Devil

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• I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

  Jack London

  London, Meteors, Sparks

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

  John Smith

  Generations, Mutation, Chance

  John Smith, Simon Patrick, John Worthington (1821). “Select discourses”, p.53

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• Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are atoms and void, moving and congregating.

  Catherine Wilson

  Moving, Care, Void

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, 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. When I reflect on that fact, I look up — many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Night, Sky

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the most astounding fact in the universe" by Elizabeth Flock, www.washingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Science, Dust

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter. And we believe that if you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it's impossible to become the gorgeous genius you were born to be. That's why we implore you to nourish yourself with delicious, nutritious tales and tunes that inspire you to exercise your willpower for your highest good.

  Rob Brezsny

  Music, Believe, Exercise

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• Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
  To the eternal sun, I render back
  These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Pain, Struggle

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.435

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• We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

  William Godwin

  Philosophy, Medicine, Unhappy

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• There is no such word as 'too late,' in the wide world — nay, not in the universe. What! shall we, whose atom of time is but a fragment out of an ever-present eternity — shall we, so long as we live, or even at our life's ending, dare to cry out to the Eternal One, 'It is too late!'

  Dinah

  Long, Too Late, World

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• It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately.

  Julianne Moore

  Chloe, Scripts, Said

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Keys, Piano

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