Quotes and Sayings about Atoms

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Why do people say "you can't trust atoms"?
Because they "make up everything". Hehe!

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

Tiny atoms, building blocks of matter, come together to form everything we see and feel. Like invisible heroes, they hold our world together. Each atom carries a story, an energy that connects us and makes us feel alive. In their silence and vastness, atoms are the secret of the universe.

Oh noble atom, tiniest unit of matter, indivisible yet mighty! Thou dost dance in the ether of the universe, surrounded by electrons, filling the world with colors and sounds. A messenger of fate, a building block of life, thou art the stuff that dreams are made of.

From the grandest stars to the tiniest of cells,
Atoms connect, as nature's magic compels.
So let us marvel at their wondrous might,
Atoms, the foundation, shining in light.

Invisible yet mighty, they shape our existence,
Atoms, the essence of cosmic persistence.
With boundless potential, forever they roam,
Atoms, the universe's eternal poem.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

If you mean when will Chernobyl be completly save - the half-life of Plutonium 239 is 24,000 years. Perhaps we should just say, "not in our lifetimes."

The accident is well under control.

Quantum physics makes me so happy. It's like looking at the universe naked.

This physicist goes into an ice cream parlor every week and orders an ice cream sundae for himself, and then offers one to the empty stool sitting next to him. This goes on for a while until the owner finally asks him what he's doing. The man says, "Well, I'm a physicist, and quantum mechanics teaches us, that it is possible for the matter above this stool to spontaneously turn into a beautiful woman who might accept my offer and fall in love with me." The owner then says, "Lots of single, beautiful women come in here ever day. Buy an ice cream for one of them, and they might fall in love with you." And the physicist says, "Yeah, but what are the odds of that happening?!"

Sheldon: "Hey, look, I found my missing neutrino."
Howard: "Oh good, we can take it off the milk carton..."

Physics answers the question, "What is the nature of the universe?" Geology answers the question, "What'd I just trip over?"

Physics is the attempt of humanity to understand the world. However it is a real good attempt.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

I need physics more than friends.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

It's a sad truth that those who shine brightest often burn fastest.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

In a world without love, death means nothing.

Long before blades and sorcery are needed, words... can save a soul.