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Frederick Soddy

Frederick Soddy FRS (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements.

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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.

Believe, Destroyed, Energy, Misusing, Past, Totally

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.

Communities, Community, Complete, Law, Matter, Science

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.

Capable, Income, Penury, Philosophy, Science, Teaching

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

Facts, Incomprehensible, Inexplicable, Mystery

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.

Beautiful, Majestically, Mood, Scary, Terrifying

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.

Deprived, Failure, Future, Music, Remains, Science

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.

Authorities, Hiroshima, Instead, Men, Military, Science

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.

Energy, Legacy, Nature, Running, Science

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.

Experience, Fall, Freedom, Political, Rise, Science

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.

Age, Convert, Costs, Order, Passion, Rot

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

Banking, Exists, Issuance, Profit, Today

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

Forces, Influence, Man, Men, Nature, Respect

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

Atomic, Control, Energy, Private, Sun, Want

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.

Discovery, Key, Keys, Men, Science, Using

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

Available, Dominated, Energy, Man, Men

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, Four, Kissing, Squares, Zero

[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.

Accepting, Civilization, Hard Work, Responsibility, Science, Scientific

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.

Mastery, Nature, Permanent, Struggle, Views

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

Crime, Ignorance, Man, Men, Sin

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.

Example, Legend, Origin, Past, Real, Source

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