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The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to...

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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady p...

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Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we’re made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dio...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, ar...

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[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it ...

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When we look at a solid lump of iron or rock, we are 'really' looking at what is almost entirely emp...

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Richard DawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sen...

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After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the at...

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It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put toget...

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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pi...

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The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a...

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Carlo RovelliLa realtà non è come ci appare: La struttura elementare delle cose

By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention c...

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It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as inc...

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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and plane...

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George GamowThe Creation of the Universe

Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are n...

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After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest bl...

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