Fred Hoyle Quotes

Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

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

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind; You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.

Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.