#atom

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk. ↗

— Aristotle

#atom #atomic #atomic-science #atoms #democritus

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear. ↗

— T. Rafael Cimino

#americans #atomic-bomb #george-bush #nuclear #nuclear-weapons

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Richard Adams

#belief #contingent #forces #heart #human

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#anatomy #dissected #least #man #marry

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#atomic #common #community #dark #darkens

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#away #beauty #desert #feel #gas

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. ↗

— George Wald

#atom #atoms #knowing #physicist #way

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. ↗

— Walt Disney

#animation #caricature #cartoon #develop #different

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit. ↗

— James Dobson

#anatomy #condom #detail #education #especially

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#anatomy #designers #figure #flunked #human