#atom

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. ↗

— Steven Chu

#become #higher #intensity #laser #like

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#atomic #biological #human #inheritance #interests

The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For nothing is ever added to it or subtracted from it. It follows that the movement of atoms today is no different from what it was in bygone ages and always will be. So the things that have regularly come into being will continue to come into being in the same manner; they will be and grow and flourish so far as each is allowed by the laws of nature. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#lucretius #nature #philosophy #universe #age

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#behavior #between #confronting #economic #great

The savages don't have atom bombs. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#bombs #savages

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

— Charles de Gaulle

#atom bomb #bomb #consider #could #country

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#attack #attic #bits #construction #development

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#any #back #behind #bullet #crocodile

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#elements #extension #nature #neither #nor

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. ↗

— Willard Libby

#atom #atomic #atomic energy #dependent #energy