Atomic Structure Quotes

• We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together.

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  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism   Together   Body  

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• Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

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  Johannes Stark

  Problem   Scientist   Structure  

  347

• Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

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  Carl David Anderson

  Clouds   Fundamentals   Systematic  

  Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”

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• There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.

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  Frederick Lenz

  Organization   Elements   Body  

  340

• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

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  Carl Sagan

  Change   Learning   Humility  

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference in 1987. "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?" Book by Judson Poling, p. 30, 2003.

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• It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

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  Barry Commoner

  Technology   Law   Inheritance  

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

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  Johannes Stark

  Expression   Important   Size  

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

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  Carl Sagan

  Change   Science   Theoretical Physics  

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.

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• Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.

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  Tom Robbins

  Truth   Blue   Balls  

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