178 Quotes About Atoms

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

If the world is made up of atoms, and everything we have is made out of atoms, why aren't we more grateful for them?

Life is nothing but a few ecstatic dancing atoms.

God is not a being but an atom where all the power, attraction, information, and beauty resides.

U Žepču kažu da ti niko »nafaku« ne može uzeti, a u Sarajevu opet vele da niko sudbini umaći ne može. U Žepču ti »nafaka«, u Sarajevu sudbina.Ima, čini mi se Šolohov knjigu »Čovjekova sud­bina«... (To se ja dvoumim zato što je u SSSR-u sudbina ukinuta.) Bio je i film. Kad ga gledaš plačeš kao da je »Mama Huanita«... Ali sve je tanko... Postoje atomi, to je naučno dokazano, samo atomi, nigdje nikoga... Ali i to je tanko...

The prime number 137 had continuously occupied Pauli's mind. It is an approximate value for a constant appearing in the fine structure theory of atomic spectra which in its theoretical expression ties together electromagnetism, relativity and quantum theory. Pauli saw the fine structure theory of spectra as a key in understanding the deepest contemporary problems of theoretical physics. For that reason the number 137 possessed a mysterious attraction for him.

At the atomic level, matter does not even exist with certainty; it only exists as a tendency to exist.

The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able chemists, is beginning to be abandoned and forgotten; and one can predict that the day is not far in the future when a sufficient collection of facts will permit determination of the internal architecture of molecules. A series of experiments directed toward such a goal is the object of this paper.

The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.