#atom

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#any #back #behind #bullet #crocodile

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

#elements #extension #nature #neither #nor

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. ↗

— Willard Libby

#atom #atomic #atomic energy #dependent #energy

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

#benefits #better #bring #closer #done

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

#atoms #belief #contingent #forces #heart

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. ↗

— Jack London

#every #glow #i #magnificent #me

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#anatomy #because #direct #dirty #experience

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#judge #named #poor #whoever

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 C. Maxwell

#divisible #equally #exist #extent #full

Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs). ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#chemical #either #elements #increase #nearly