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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. -- Muriel Rukeyser
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. -- Democritus
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. -- Walter Lippmann
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 P. Feynman
The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms. -- Muriel Rukeyser
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. -- Rene Magritte
I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. -- Richard P. Feynman
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. -- George Wald
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. -- Carl Sagan
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. -- Niels Bohr
In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva. -- Frederick Reines
Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. -- David Sarnoff
Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out. -- Don Marquis
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. -- Blaise Pascal
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. -- Harry S Truman
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. -- Willard Libby
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. -- Jack London
Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space. -- Orson Pratt
What's the matter?'' She immediately started laughin. ''What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter! -- Dan Brown
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. -- Mao Zedong
If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible? -- Richard P. Feynman
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. -- E. B. White
Atoms are round balls of wood invented by Dr. Dalton.(Answer given by a pupil to a question on atomic theory, as reported by Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe.) -- Henry Enfield Roscoe
The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. -- Johannes Stark
On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron. -- Pieter Zeeman
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. -- Alexander Pope
As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually. -- Edward Witten
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
We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes. -- Willard Libby
For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom. -- Ernest Lawrence
Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us. -- Marianne Williamson
Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a telegraph key in a tabletop circuit demonstrating an RCA atomic battery as a power source.] -- David Sarnoff
If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage. -- Marcus Aurelius
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? -- James Clerk Maxwell
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. -- Jackson Pollock
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity -- Steven Chu
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. -- Steven Chu
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. -- Samuel Butler
Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine -- Ernest Rutherford
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. -- Tom Robbins
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe. -- Alan Moore
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. -- Niels Bohr
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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. -- Werner Heisenberg
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. -- George Wald
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
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion. -- Edward Everett
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. -- Khalil Gibran
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. -- William Turner
Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories. -- Eduardo Galeano
When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time. -- Alan Guth
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 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? -- James Clerk Maxwell
Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws. -- Martin Rees
Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on. -- William Henry Bragg
If the cosmos isn't finite, then far, far away, floating duplicates of your brain - with all its experiences, thoughts, and emotions - are occasionally (and temporarily) thrown together by the random combining of atoms. Such 'Boltzmann brains,' as they're called, are a disturbing consequence of an unlimited universe. -- Seth Shostak
Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life. -- Lynn Margulis
In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. -- Mitch Kapor
Everything is made of atoms. -- Richard P. Feynman
Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms. -- William Powell
Nothing exists but atoms and the void. -- Democritus
Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms. -- Bill Bryson
We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people. -- Boomer Esiason
You can split atoms, but you can't split true love. -- Steve Fowler
The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories. -- Russell Brand
Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings. -- Jane Roberts
In nature there is no death, Only a reshuffling of atoms. -- G.J
The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry. -- Marty Rubin
Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. -- Penelope Lively
98% of the atoms in your body were not there a year ago. -- Deepak Chopra
It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits. -- Nicholas Negroponte
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. -- Niels Bohr
The universe is not made up of atoms; it's made up of tiny stories. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth. -- Martin Rees
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Turnbull
The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms. -- Johannes Stark
If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished?mountains can be crumbled into atoms. -- Swami Vivekananda
Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself. -- Michio Kaku
What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope. -- Neil Gaiman
Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever. -- Lady Gaga
There are more potential combinations of DNA [physical forms] than there are atoms in the universe. -- Carl Sagan
The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed. -- Kelly Easton
What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them? -- Richard P. Feynman
Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers -- Marcus du Sautoy
He knows what I'm thinking. Always. We're connected. The atoms between us ferry messages back and forth. -- Karen Marie Moning
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. -- Erykah Badu
The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. -- Democritus
There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together. -- Fred Hoyle
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall. -- Virginia Woolf
There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy. -- Carl Sagan
If I filled the Earth with blueberries, I would have the same number as atoms in a grapefruit. -- Jonathan Bergmann
'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind. -- John Godfrey Saxe
The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms. -- Catherine Wilson
Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself... -- Philip Jose Farmer
Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist -- Democritus
Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories. -- Mia Couto
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas. -- Ernst Mach
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections. -- George M. Whitesides
Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis. -- Edwin Conklin
...where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united... -- D. H. Lawrence
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. -- Colin McGinn
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. -- Carl Sagan
Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. -- Mark Twain
The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year. -- Deepak Chopra
Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories -- Eduardo Galeano
This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity. -- Aleister Crowley
No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky. -- Paul Ehrenfest
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. -- Lewis Mumford
Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require. -- Sharon Shinn
The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright. -- William Blake
We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void. -- Democritus
I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom. -- Linus Pauling
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms. -- Ingmar Bergman
Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms. -- William Rounseville Alger
Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars. -- Edward Frenkel
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts. -- Werner Heisenberg
A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule -- Robert Scoble
Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy. -- Paramahansa Yogananda

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