Words matter. These are the best Frederick Soddy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.
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.
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
An honest money system is the only alternative.
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
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.
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.
Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.
Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
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.
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
