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The chemical and spectroscopic character is that of the atom during its normal.., uneventful life, whilst its radioactive character is... produced by its sudden death.

— Frederick Soddy The Origins of the Conception of Isotopes (1922)

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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.

The world that is dead vitally and spiritually is not dead physically.

Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)

The path hewn by knowledge through ignorance points two ways in the direction of the absolute unattainable truth. Man has always tended to confound these two classes of the ultimately unknowable.

Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)

There is no life—body, mind or soul...— no birth, growth or even existence, without a continuous supply and expenditure of energy.

Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)

The self-contained organism is not comprehensible, but the combination of an inanimate mechanism and an external will is more intelligible.

Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)

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