(88 quotes found)
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
Muriel Rukeyser
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion”
Democritus
“A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.”
George Wald
“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms”
Penelope Lively
“Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio”
Lucretius
“The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.”
Steven Chu
“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
“That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy”
Jonathan Swift
“Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine”
Ernest Rutherford
“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
