“We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.” MayUsedGroupsSubstancePairsAtomsStableAcidMoleculesLoneElectronsCompleting Author:Gilbert N. Lewis
“If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.” IfsMayStillsDoneDealsFieldsMaterialsStructureConclusionAtomsNeverthelessPhysicistTheoreticalEvaluate Author:Johannes Stark
“So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms.” MenShouldMayEyeFormScienceMoralSunPlansYouthTaughtBrotherHeroMassRoseTemplesAtomsOrgansTendernessSageWormsRestlessEnlighteningMorrowPoisonousScientific Truth Author:Erasmus Darwin
“Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.” MaySaidPurposeCreationDegreesMarriedUniversalUnionsIndividualityIntenseSufficientDivisionAtoms Book:John Muir: Nature Writings Source: John Muir: Nature Writings
“...it may be that there is no God, that the existence of all that is beautiful and in any sense good is but the accidental and ineffective byproduct of blindly swirling atoms, that we are alone in a world that cares nothing for us or for the values that we create and sustain - that we and they are here for a moment only, and gone, and that eventually there will be left no trace of us in the universe. A man may well believe that this dredful thing is true. But only the fool will say in his heart that he is glad that it is true.” ThinkingMenWorldBelieveWellsHeartMayMomentsCareBeautifulValuesUniverseLeftExistenceGoneFoolGladAtomsThere Is No God Author:Sterling M. McMurrin
“The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.” MenMaySoulLife IsAirDrinkPropertyPhilosopherCrowdsThis LifeRevolutionaryGasResolveHallsAtomsTranslateDesksLecturesThere Is No GodBrethrenRobbery Book:A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. Source: A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters.