#atom

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#adventures #atom #blowing #bubble #computer

"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation). ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#atomic #first #said #witnessing #worked

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#atomic bomb #begin #bomb #end #engineers

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#atomic #atomic energy #beyond #civilian #co-operation

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#made #stories #universe

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#anatomy #because #classes #detailed #drawings

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#cannot #forces #influence #man #nature

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#contribute #directly #expressed #follow #great

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atoms #chemical #chemist #compounds #consist

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. ↗

— James Jeans

#because #carbon #certain #exceptional #exists