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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."
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"It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."
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"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."
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"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."
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"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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"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."
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"Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms."
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"The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity."
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"You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay."
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"The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
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"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"
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"And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense."
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"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."
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"It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."
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"I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack."
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"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."
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"I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me."
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"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."
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"A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better."
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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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