Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johannes Stark

The spectra of atomic ions of higher valence are different from the spectra of atomic ions of the same element, but of lower valence.

Theodore William Richards

Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other.

John Smith

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Niels Bohr

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

Michio Kaku

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

Martin Rees

If we do find ET, we will at least have something in common with them. They may live on planet Zog and have seven tentacles, but they will be made of the same kinds of atoms as us. If they have eyes, they will gaze out on the same cosmos as we do. They will, like us, trace their origins back to a 'Big Bang' 13.8 billion years ago.

Michel Faber

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

Aaron D. O'Connell

We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.

Steven Hadley

There is an opportunity for Iran to do what the EU-3 and we, and I think most of the board of governors (of the International Atomic Energy Agency) hope they will do, which is come back into compliance, stop the conversion activity, and then to resume discussions and negotiations with the EU-3 about a more permanent arrangement.

Bernie Sanders

For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Johnny Weir

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.

Tommy Cooper

I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.

John Steinbeck

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

John Wooden

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

Michel de Montaigne

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Jack Kerouac

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...

Jeanne Moreau

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

Greg Mortenson

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

Hudson Stuck

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

Richard Paul Evans

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.