“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion”
Democritus
“We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“a nuclear reaction is produced due to the fact that a universe with a certain amount of space (evil) has just been exposed to a universe with a vastly larger amount of space. all the matter within the universe of the atom is ripped apart, the matter that has a greater LFL (search "steve bullock" for this term) in this universe resists being ripped apart, the energy released by this interaction is what results in an explosion.”
Steve Bullock
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
Muriel Rukeyser
“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 Feynman
“I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.”
Walt Whitman
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”
