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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."

"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."

Johannes Stark, German Physicist

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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."

"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."

William Turner, British Scientist

Atoms, May, World

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"The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity."

"The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity."

Steven Chu, American Scientist

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"Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms."

"Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms."

William Powell, American Actor

Atoms, Manufacturing

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

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

Johannes Stark, German Physicist

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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."

"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."

Werner Heisenberg, German Physicist

Atoms, Language, Problems

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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."

"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."

Gilbert Newton Lewis, American Scientist

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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."

"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."

Johannes Stark, German Physicist

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

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

George Wald, American Scientist

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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."

"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."

K. Eric Drexler, American Scientist

Atoms, Consequences, Machines

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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."

"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."

George Wald, American Scientist

Atoms, Poor, Universe

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"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?"

"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?"

James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician

Atoms, Infinite, Man, Mind

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