Quotes tagged ‘Atoms’

“There are many kinds of stars. Some are bright like the Sun. Some are dim. The greatest stars are ten million times larger than the smallest ones. Some stars are old beyond imagining, more than ten billion years of age. Others are being born right now. When atoms fuse in the hearts of stars, they ma…”

— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“There are more atoms in your eye than there are stars in all the galaxies in the known universe.”

— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“What do you call a fish made of only two sodium atoms? 2 Na”

— IShitOnYourPost, reddit.com

“There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

“The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.”

— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com

“Every sentence is a wispy net, capturing a few flecks of meaning. The sun shines without vocabulary. The salmon has no name for the urge that drives it upstream. The newborn groping for the nipple knows hunger long before it knows a single word. Even with an entire dictionary in one's head, one even…”

— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com

“Nothing less than the undivided universe can be our true home.”

— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com

“What memory is made of I cannot say; my body, at least, is made of atoms on loan from the earth. How implausible, that these atoms should have gathered to form this I, this envelope of skin that walks about.”

— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com