178 Quotes About Atoms

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

When you vaporize rock, there is very little hydrogen -- whereas 50 percent of the atoms in a rock are oxygen.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

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.

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

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.