More by Frederick Soddy
The will to perform, and, in the special sense that concerns human beings, the goodwill to perform good, is in its nature and origin alone an attribute of life.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
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.
The Origins of the Conception of Isotopes (1922)
It is in the present state of physics impossible to conceive of a physically dead world, that is to say, a world without any available source of energy.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
There seems very little between these views worth argument, and among educated modern peoples, were it not for the priests, religious differences would scarcely trouble the world.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
The cold, soulless mechanism of the cosmos invades the living organism, and the principles of energy and matter... in the inanimate world govern man...
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
A religion that on the most important questions of everyday life has nothing to say.., is a greater danger to the vitality of a nation than... scepticism and unbelief.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
The history of isotopes fittingly commences with the discovery of radio-thorium, a new product in the thorium disintegration series, by Sir William Ramsay and Otto Hahn in 1905...
The Origins of the Conception of Isotopes (1922)
Just as the man of science is unable to push his mechanical conceptions to explain life and the Deity, so the theist must not push his conception of the Deity and life into the inanimate universe.
Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)
All Frederick Soddy quotes →