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With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.
Johannes Stark
Myself
Change
Mind
Atoms
Some
Structure
Investigation
Between
Particular
Chemical
Years
Task
Experimental
Twenty
Set
By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.
Johannes Stark
Positive
Atoms
Giving
Field
Distinguish
Stationary
Possible
Through
Neutral
Allowing
Thus
Velocity
Ions
Pass
Them
Certain
Electric
The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.
Johannes Stark
Atoms
Single
Compounds
Exception
Without
Series
After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
K. Eric Drexler
Atoms
Build
Consequences
Virtually
Saw
Machines
Would
Able
Followed
Could
Arrange
Lot
Any
Wanted
Form
After
Pattern
Realizing
Molecular
Molecular Machines
Eventually
Awful
Awful Lot
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.
Martin Rees
Nature
Humanity
Space
Atoms
Stars
Universe
Setting
Our
Earth
Evolved
Cosmic
Darwin
Conception
How
Context
Scientists
His
Itself
Taught
Probing
Place
Transformed
Grander
Century
Us
Thereby
Twenty-First
Origins
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
Science
Physics
Complicated
Made
Atoms
Own
Birds
Waves
Everything
Those
Solved
Seek
Laws
Tropical
Could
Concepts
Quantum
Equations
Quantum Physics
Scientists
However
Forests
Offer
Autonomous
Breaking
Even
Each
Enlightenment
The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.
Michael Shermer
Today
Atoms
September
Month
Born
Make
Make Up
Brain
Up
Same
Body
Molecules
Actual
I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.
Michel Faber
Love
God
Faith
You
Care
Atoms
Gone
Universe
Earth
Out
Collections
Would
Take
No-One
Taking
Just
Little
Then
Us
Meat
Flowering
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
Time
You
Property
Protection
Value
Free
Atoms
Situation
Bits
Laws
More
More And More
Rely
Economic
Schemes
Economy
Well
Existing
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Models
Any
Going
Essentially
Where
Information
Less
Copied
We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time.
Mohsin Hamid
Time
Atoms
Composed
Equally
Us
Each
In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.
Otto Wallach
Great
Strong
Atoms
Smell
Other
Typical
Bitter
Compounds
Properties
Counted
Had
Like
Arrangement
Caused
Been
Behalf
Substances
Oil
Derivative
Derivatives
Special
Carbon
Among
Present
Number
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Richard Adams
Religion
Science
Heart
Atoms
Human Heart
Radical
Stars
Rejection
Lies
Forces
Contingent
Precisely
Modern
Move
Human
Modern Science
Which
Preferences
Popular
Belief
Novelty
The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.
Ryan Holmes
Reality
Brilliant
Atoms
Back
Everywhere
Thousands
Entrepreneurs
Investors
Like
Partners
Still
Improve
Just
Packed
Forth
Your
Standing
Actually
Chances
If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
Sam Kean
You
Achieve
Atoms
Chemistry
Satisfied
Sum
Borrow
Steal
Had
Feel
Shed
Shell
Shells
Up
Different
Different Elements
Sentence
Might
Full
Electron
Elements
Need
Numbers
On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.
Sam Kean
You
Yourself
Pure
Atoms
Diamond
Nothing
Down
Every
Scale
Inside
See
Direction
Perfect
Another
Stood
Pattern
Billions
Carbon
Shrunk
Bonded
Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
Sam Kean
Natural
Ending
Atoms
Type
Outer
Table
Pointing
Points
Noble
Shell
Turning
Next
Turning Points
Creating
Special
Electron
Fill
Element
Row
Gas
Gases
Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.
Sam Kean
Positive
Strong
Light
Negative
Atoms
Big
Speed
Speeds
Consist
Flying
Outside
Feel
Around
Close
Get
Closest
Tug
Bigger
Whip
Really
Electron
Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
Sam Kean
Daily
Natural
Light
Atoms
Single
Every
Our
Table
All-Around
Atom
Given
Small
Obscure
Weighty
Almost
Over
Periodic
Around
How
Least
Years
Common
Against
Them
Us
Certain
Body
Your
Your Body
Many
Element
Lives
Daily Lives
Nearly
Humans
Incorporate
Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic physics of atoms and electrons would have to be altered in order for this to be true. If we tried, the fundamental absurdity of the task would quickly become evident.
Sean M. Carroll
Life
Work
Death
Hard Work
Physics
Be True
Atoms
Become
Sit
Down
Evident
Would
Tried
Tries
True
Absurdity
Nobody
Altered
Advocate
How
Quickly
Task
Order
After
Explaining
Hard
Electron
Even
Fundamental
Among
Basic
In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.
Seth Lloyd
You
Speak
Language
Atoms
Circumstances
Out
Compute
Make
Learn
Understand
How
Normal
Normal Circumstances
Order
Information
Process
Process Information
Figure
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.
Tom Robbins
World
Water
Language
Made
Atoms
Our
Air
Earth
Our World
Molecules
Even
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
Science
Heart
Atoms
Human Heart
Radical
Stars
Rejection
Lies
Forces
Contingent
Precisely
Modern
Move
Human
Modern Science
Which
Preferences
Belief
Novelty
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
Wilhelm Dilthey
Natural
World
Atoms
Changes
Those
Physical
Physical World
Could
Thus
Conceive
Forces
Known
Sciences
Motion
Motions
Fixed
Natural Sciences
Means
Whole
Nuclear
Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements.
William Henry Bragg
Atoms
Fire
Energy
Our
Those
Composed
Allow
Check
Up
Hands
Any
Substance
Whenever
Movements
Which
Warm
Cool
Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules.
William Henry Bragg
Vision
Atoms
Increased
Our
Thousand
Thousand Times
See
Ten
Individual
Discovery
Times
Speaking
Molecules
Now
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
You
World
Made
Atoms
Sit
Give
Data
Individual
Qualitative
Quantitative
Been
Heard
Up
May
Stories
Really
Molecules
Here
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