Quotes by Frederick Soddy - Page 1

An honest money system is the only alternative.
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Alternatives
Honest
Alternative
System
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Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.
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Respect
Men
Force
Influence
Atomic
Forces
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On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
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Adversaries
Ignorance
Planes
Immemorial
Plane
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Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
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Beautiful
Mood
Scary
Austere
Terrifying
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An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.
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Facts
Inexplicable
Mystery
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The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy
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Men
Available
Energy
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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
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Men
Crime
Ignorance
Moralist
Sin
Jurist
Scientific
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There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
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Environment
Indifference
Sublime
External
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[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.
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Energy
Sun
Want
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The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
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Banking
Profit
Today
Business Money Great
Capital
Exists
Provided
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The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.
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Air
Feelings
Snow
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There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.
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Men
Science
Discovery
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I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.
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Believe
Energy
Past
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With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
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Mastery
Permanent
Struggle
Views
Condition
Life Nature Struggle
Powers
View
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The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.
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Failure
Future
Science
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Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
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Science
Chemistry
Invasion
Mess
Messy
No Reason
Physicist
Reason Why
Invade
Permitted
Termed
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The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.
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Science
Philosophy
Teaching
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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
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Men
Science
Civilisation
Ignorance
Impact
Modern Science
Precise
Regard
Charge
Effect
Escape
Hardly
Mode
Scientific
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Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
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Meaningless
Views
Actual
Allegorical
Apparently
Jumble
Origin
Slightly
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There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.
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Banking
Banking System
Debt
Deeper
Expansion
Growth
Increasing
Provide
Requires
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The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.
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Air
Dazzling
Noble
Pure
Snow
Terrible
Belong
Beyond
Neither
Nor
Personal Feeling
Reach
Such Things
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The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem solved is dead. A world without problems to be solved would be devoid of science.
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Knowledge
Science
Real
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The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities.
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Men
Science
Military
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Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.
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Science
Fate
Hard Work
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In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.
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Nobel
Preparation
Prize
Anticipated
Awarded
Discoveries
First Place
Indeed
Lecture
Shown
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The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain, and brings in perennial interest.
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Age
Order
Passion
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[The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the profound social upheavals which their own work primarily has brought about in human relationships.
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Acceptance
Hard Work
Responsibility
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It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.
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Curious
Example
Past
Penetrate
Philosopher
Real
Records
Remarkable
Beliefs
Legend
For Example
Oldest
Origin
Reflect
Stone
Trace
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To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
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Abolish
Ascent
Dominion
Unlimited
Altogether
Appears
Extent
In The Past
Physical
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Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.
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Atomic Energy
Coal
Islands
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Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb There's now no need for rule of thumb. Since zero bend's a dead straight line And concave bends have minus sign, The sum of squares of all four bends Is half the square of their sum.
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Zero
Distance
Kissing
Math
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[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general and the Periodic Law.... Chemical homogeneity is no longer a guarantee that any supposed element is not a mixture of several of different atomic weights, or that any atomic weight is not merely a mean number.
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Science
Light
Mean
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In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.
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Nature
Running
Science
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For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course in nature, and how, under wisdom and knowledge, it may be intertwined with human destiny, instead of careering headlong to the ocean, are a study at least as pregnant with consequences to life as any lesson taught by the long unscientific history of man.
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Ocean
Men
Destiny
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Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream.
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Science
Drug
Essence
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The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ... in the whole record of human experience, and they control, in the last resort, the rise or fall of political systems, the freedom or bondage of nations, the movements of commerce and industry, the origin of wealth and poverty, and the general physical welfare of the race.
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Freedom
Science
Fall
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It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.
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Men
Destiny
Hands
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Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared.
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America
Civilization
Missing
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Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known, not merely by inanimate things, but also by living organisms, in their minutest parts, as single individuals, and also as whole communities. It results from this that, however complicated a series of phenomena may be and however many other sciences may enter into its complete presentation, the purely physical aspect, or the application of the known laws of matter and energy, can always be legitimately separated from the other aspects.
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Science
Community
Law
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