"The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose."
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"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!"
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"There are more potential combinations of DNA [physical forms] than there are atoms in the universe."
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"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together."
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"We are made of star stuff. For the most part, atoms heavier than hydrogen were created in the interiors of stars and then expelled into space to be incorporated into later stars. The Sun is probably a third generation star."
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"Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are atoms and void, moving and congregating."
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"The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms."
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"The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was possible ... whereas if you look at warfare up until that point, you had to see somebody to shoot them or maim them, you had to look at them. You don't have to do that anymore."
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"The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus ."
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"I got into nuclear science when I was about 10 years old I was fascinated by the stuff. I was fascinated by the reactions and the power inside these atoms that we had the capability to unlock."
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"The cry of distress lays hold of our Lord's omnipotence. It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp."
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"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?"
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"Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe."
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"Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable, because motion or change is a relative thing; we can only think of something in motion in comparison with something which is not moving."
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"Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces."
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"Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery."
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"Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires."
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"The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?""
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"Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy."
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"The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too."
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