concept

atoms Quotes

Five of the best book quotes about atoms
01
Share
Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity.
Stephen King
author
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
book
Walter Padick
character
not what things seem
shifting perspective
atoms
concepts
02
Share
“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
Cosmos
book
life
beauty
atoms
sequences
concepts
03
Share
“The mechanistic world is imagined only as sight and touch imagine a world (as “moved”) --so as to be calculable-- thus causal unities are invented, “things” (atoms) whose effect remains constant (--transference of the false concept of subject to the concept of the atom).”
04
Share
“In order to sustain the theory of a mechanistic world, therefore, we always have to stipulate to what extent we are employing two fictions: the concept of motion (taken from our sense language) and the concept of the atom (=unity, deriving from our psychical “experience”): the mechanistic theory presupposes a sense prejudice and a psychological prejudice.”
05
Share
“We now know that neither the atoms nor the protons and neutrons within them are indivisible. So the question is: what are the truly elementary particles, the basic building blocks from which everything is made?′

Recommended quote pages

View All Quotes

Bookroo

Book Clubs

Follow Bookroo