“The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.” MadeWholeFactsIndividualDiscoveryVariousRecognitionChemicalsAtomsUnitsSelf Made Author:Johannes Stark
“Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.” MadeShowsScienceNatureNaturalPleasureModelsInfiniteUnityMereIndividualityAstronomyVarietyAtomsFascinatedContrastBlankDisguiseGlancesMechanicInventorNotebookNewtonAdaptabilitySingleness Book:The Common Sense of Science Source: The Common Sense of Science
“The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.” MadeUseGovernmentPoliticalDecisionCitiesMilitaryPerceptionBasesNuclearEnormousBombsAtomsArsenalAtom Bomb Book:A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
“Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories” HumansLittlesMadeStoriesHuman BeingsBirdScientistAtoms Author:Eduardo Galeano
“Nancy According to astronomers, every atom in my body was forged in a star. I am made, they insist, of stardust. I am stardust braided into strands and streamers of information, proteins and DNA, double helixes of stardust. In every cell of my body there is a thread of stardust as long as my arm.” LongMadeBodyStarsInformationArmsCellsAtomsThreadDnaProteinStrandsStardustAstronomersForgedNancy Author:Chet Raymo
“Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.” MadeCharacterCertainGivenSpaceEventsBuildingHappeningsTownsPatternsAtomsLockedMoleculesGeometric Author:Christopher Alexander