Quotes by Frederick Soddy

Frederick Soddy

[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.

Acceptance

Hard Work

Responsibility

[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

Energy

Sun

Want

[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.

Light

Mean

Science

An honest money system is the only alternative.

Alternatives

Honest

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

Facts

Inexplicable

Mystery

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Ignorance

Men

Sin

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.

Invasion

Reason Why

Science

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.

Destiny

Men

Ocean

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.

Distance

Math

Zero

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.

Fate

Hard Work

Science

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Adversaries

Age

Air

Alternatives

America

Atomic Energy

Available

Banking

Beautiful

Believe

Civilization

Coal

Community

Destiny

Discovery

Distance

Drug

Energy

Environment

Essence

Example

Facts

Failure

Fall

Fate

Feelings

Freedom

Future

Hands

Hard Work

Honest

Ignorance

Indifference

Inexplicable

Influence

Invasion

Islands

Knowledge

Law

Light

Mastery

Math

Mean

Men

Military

Missing

Mood

Mystery

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Quotes by Frederick Soddy

Frederick Soddy

[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.

[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

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.

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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