Quotes on Atoms

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

Author: Steven Chu

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

Author: Democritus

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.

Author: Wilhelm Dilthey

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

Author: K. Drexler

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

Author: Werner Heisenberg

We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.

Author: Gilbert Lewis

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

Author: Seth Lloyd

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

Author: James Maxwell

Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms.

Author: William Powell

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Author: Muriel Rukeyser

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

Author: Michael Shermer

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

Author: Johannes Stark

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

Author: Johannes Stark

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

Author: Johannes Stark

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.

Author: William Turner

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

Author: George Wald

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Author: George Wald