"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."

Discovery, Fact

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"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."

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"To get where you want to go, the first question you always have to answer is Where am I? ... We only find out where we are when we find out where He is. We only find ourselves... when we find Him."

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"But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud."

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"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."

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"You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."

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"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there."

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"Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery."

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"Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain."

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"By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world."

Humanity, Investigation, World

"An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction."

Negative, Positive, Direction, Meeting

"A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move."

Direction, canal, May

"The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms."

Atoms,

"For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta."

Atoms, Light

"It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system."

Atoms, Will

"Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases."

Effect, Numbers, Running

"The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle."

May,

"We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached."

Experience, Circumstances

"The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks."

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