The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve ... TERRY PRATCHETT I want to build a billion tiny factories, models of each other, which are manufacturing simultaneous... RICHARD FEYNMAN I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited ... DAVID R. BROWER Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and t... TERRY PRATCHETT MOLECULE, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also ... AMBROSE BIERCE The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once a... KEVIN MCCARTHY It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to... ALEISTER CROWLEY The nicotine molecule is too small to affect an immune response. By soaking it up, our carrier prote... HENRIK RASMUSSEN The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us. QUENTIN REYNOLDS The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelance... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF I have heard them preach, when I sat in the pew and my feet did not touch the floor, about the final... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to com... GILBERT NEWTON LEWIS If we see a technology that would take us two to three years to develop, we prefer to acquire it. GEORGE SAMENUK The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the ... JOHN BURROUGHS It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of ba... FRANCIS CRICK We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by... ALFRED KASTLER It did everything we hoped it would do. It was very positive, it outlined for us the things that we ... DANA EIKENBERG [On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.] MICHIO KAKU Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the at... RAMANA MAHARSHI That is how we came to the idea of the molecule. AMIT AXELROD After we knew the molecule, we knew that there was going to be intense litigation over it, DON CATLIN Currently, we cannot develop on the hills, because the current technology at hand is not allowing us... LIZ SIBINDI It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of ... GEORGE WALD We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programm... JENNIFER DOUDNA Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre... ANDRE MAUROIS Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre... ANDRé MAUROIS There were things Gannett wanted to do and things Knight Ridder wanted to do, ... We decided if we c... TONY RIDDER I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving mol... GEORGE WALD We selected Calypso because we felt that it was a strategic technology solution that would allow us ... AKIFUMI UCHIDA I knew this day was coming. I knew he was going to do this at some point, somewhere, and people woul... EVAN BROCK We had some point-blank shots that we just go a little too excited about and played a couple of them... JASON ODORIZZI Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of ... JEFF GOODELL Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can thi... JACOB BRONOWSKI So this should bring all of us together and a certain synergy and productivity that we think would b... DICK HAMILTON Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks a... RICHARD DAWKINS Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you ... NOAM CHOMSKY We all believed it was a big joke. They went out on a limb and said it was real effect and it might ... WILLIAM MCCURDY We have talked quite a bit about trying to do things more efficiently, and a charter would allow us ... CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER There was a bit of hope that the government would have found a way out of this by now. At this point... GIANLUCA FERRARI They wanted to fire one X-ray photon at a hydrogen molecule, knock both electrons back, and the two ... WILLIAM MCCURDY But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once--... DAVE EGGERS I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people,... AARON KOBLIN It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it ... DAVID BREWSTER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world. CONFUCIUS From this point, the security was handled by US marshals, and we were told that no pens or paper wou... DAN MURPHY How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! [...] When we ar... HENRY DAVID THOREAU One of the things people did best at the office was to use flexibility to its last atom. PAWAN MISHRA It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are im... EVAN SPIEGEL One of two things was going to happen at that point. They were going to make a run at us, or we woul... BLAKE HOFFARBER This is obviously all orchestrated, ... They told us they had some new information they wanted our i... ALAN FOREMAN Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the anc... ANNIE DILLARD One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the at... SHELDON LEE GLASHOW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We would have scored a lot more if we could have gotten the ball back more often. I was surprised by... BUDDY POUGH We're hopeful that the new language that we have submitted will serve as a rallying point for the di... DAVID HOPCRAFT That was one we thought we could have won but we let it get by us. We were on the road and we played... AARON STIEGELER In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibili... FEDERICA MONTSENY If we assume that the last breath of, say, JAMES HOPWOOD JEANS When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting u... JOSHUA HARRIS It hurt us to lose by one point to Perry. I told the it would come down to that. ALVIN COPELAND She would not let go of him and the three of us pinned her up against this wall over here and finall... BRAD ZINN It was horrible to end our season like that. We were down by one point and we just couldn't finish i... CORY JACOBS There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during ... JO BONNER We had explored the possibility of the French sending us Mirage, and the French were willing; and wh... DANIEL ORTEGA The laws of physics don't change; we just figured out how to give us some more runway. MARGARET LEWIS That was the foundation. It's like a catalyst, an atom, that you have to start from the center and a... CONSTANCE TYLER We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal... STEPHEN HAWKING But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiro... JOSEPH ROTBLAT We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matte... C. JOYBELL C. We were pretty sure of its structure, but it wasn't a molecule that had ever been described before, DON CATLIN […] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does n... ALBERT CAMUS Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust, Atom to Atom, Returning to the ONE. WAKE UP! MESSAGE To us who think in terms of practical use, the splitting of the atom means nothing LORD RICHIE CALDER At this point, we are going to wait for some higher authority to say whether it should be catalogued... KAREN ROESLER We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an ele... JOHANNES STARK I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze... JACK LONDON I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze... JACK LONDON I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze... JACK LONDON We want kids to stay involved in two and three sports, and we thought one of the things that would a... DAN GARRETT All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this w... C.S. LEWIS If you get infertility, then you know that the molecule is required for fertility, and this is our '... ANDREW SINGSON I'm a stay-at-home mom, but I wanted to find work that would allow us time to take care of our kids.... CATHY PERNOCK We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautifu... HUGO BALL There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. W... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense - a sen... PATTIE MAES I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze ... JACK LONDON I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending tha... ALBERT EINSTEIN As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemi... EDUARD BUCHNER Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Ly... STEVEN PRESSFIELD Princes that would their people should do well
Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
For m... BEN JONSON An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways. SALVOR HARDIN Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent... JACK LONDON The ear is so sensitive it can measure a vibration the width of the hydrogen molecule, and I'm watch... JOSEPH SMALDINO [...] let us note that a so-called "Sociobiologist" - this word is a whole project by itself - pushe... FRITHJOF SCHUON I think his versatility is great for us and allows us to do different things. So at this point in or... ANDY MURRAY Technically he hasn't violated any laws by purchasing a tag. He was under the belief that he would b... CHRIS CAVANAUGH Technically he hasn't violated any laws by purchasing a tag, ... He was under the belief that he wou... CHRIS CAVANAUGH There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they ar... RICHARD FEYNMAN
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