Famous quotes containing the word atoms:
“Scatter my ashes, strew them in the air:
Lord since thou knowst where all these atoms are,
Im hopeful thoult recover once my dust,
And confident thoult raise me with the just.”
—James Graham Marquess of Montrose (16121650)
“[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weaponlaughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecutionthese can lift at a colossal humbugpush it a littleweaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“It is the way unseen, the certain route,
Where ever bound, yet thou art ever free;
The path of Him, whose perfect law of love
Bids spheres and atoms in just order move.”
—Jones Very (18311880)