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"It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world."
"It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover."
"Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind."
"Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant."
"What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?"
"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self."
"Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united."
"Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing."
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
"One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds."
"Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe."
"Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden."
"Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever."
"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"
"These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination."
"As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind."
"98% of the atoms in your body were not there a year ago."
"We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries."
"By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world."
"Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new."
