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"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."
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"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."

"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?"

"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."

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

"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."
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"The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win."

"There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men."

"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful."
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