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Frederick Soddy
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“I make no pretence... whether the personality, conscience and soul... is... capable of being regarded as... development of the simple consciousness, or awareness, of its existence... possessed by the lowly . I accept the... complete break of continuity between the animate and inanimate worlds, as being all that is really demanded... If I am told that unless I make another such break between man and... animals, I weaken the argument I have suggested accounting for the origin of the belief in... immortality... by including therein all living creatures, it is only necessary to say that the general doctrine of evolution of man from the lower animals seems to point unmistakably in this direction.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the interest of the average man... must... rest in a just appreciation of the relations of these... worlds, the spiritual and the mechanical, to his own life. ...[O]ut of ... direct connection... they... meet on common ground — in him. ...He has to make his peace with both, as he is the sufferer if his soul gets caught in the gear. Neither... spiritual nor mechanical worlds contain him. ...[N]either spirit nor machine, he is an animal, born as animals are born, his... life largely occupied with... sex.., parents, mate.., offspring and the domestic hearth, in later phases with the social, communal and national life. Thus we have three distinct worlds, linked each to each, as... of a chain, the middle link only being in direct relationship to the whole.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]e do not think... that there is a "vital chemistry" different from ordinary chemistry. Some... peculiarly vital chemical processes have... been found... precisely similar to those that... in mineral and inorganic chemistry. Thus , once thought to depend upon living organisms... [are] processes... due to unorganised "s," secreted by the organism, and these enzymes are analogous to the "catalysts" of inorganic chemistry. ...[S]uch catalysts—finely divided ... is one of the commonest...— are "poisoned" by the same poisons — , prussic acid...[etc]—as are most deadly to life. ...The poison ...destroying ...activities of these catalysts... stops the processes.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“H. G. Wells... defined the main difference between an ordinary, modern, intelligent, well-educated, benevolent and morally right-minded atheist or agnostic and the genuine religious enthusiast, as being in the... [atheist or agnostic]'s view of his [own]... high-minded and unimpeachable personality as a separate isolated existence, independent of all others, and the... [religious enthusiast]'s view that what is benevolent, high-minded and noble in his personality is not a natural consequence of the life-process, but part of a personal God, who responds to and lives in... closest relationship with... individual souls...”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[P]hysicists sorted the rays... into... α−, β− and γ-rays... β-rays were shown to be... expulsion of... electrons... at a far higher speed than any... in the as cathode-rays. The γ-rays were... s... of... greater penetrating power. In due course... X-rays were shown to be waves of light of extraordinary short wavelength and high frequency, whilst... γ-rays are... of even shorter wavelength and higher frequency. The α-rays were first proved to be... radiant atoms of... positive charge and... identified, after many years of... work by... Rutherford, with atoms carrying two atomic charges of positive electricity.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of the... similar new radio-elements... is still the only one [of] the compounds... prepared in a pure state, and for which the spectrum and atomic weight have been determined. As regards its... chemical character radium is... normal and its properties could have been predicted accurately for... its place in the . It is the last member of the... alkaline earths and stands in relation to as thorium does to in the periodic system. But... it possesses a radioactive character truly astounding. The energy it evolves... 133 calories per gram per hour. ...[T]he uniqueness of radium is due mainly to... its average life, 2440 years.., sufficiently long to... accumulate in... minerals.., yet short enough for the rate at which the energy... is liberated to be... surprising.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For pairs of lips to kiss maybe Involves no trigonometry. 'Tis not so when four circles kiss Each one the other three. To bring this off the four must be As three in one or one in three. If one in three, beyond a doubt Each gets three kisses from without. If three in one, then is that one Thrice kissed internally. Four circles to the kissing come. The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb There's now no need for rule of thumb. Since zero bend's a dead straight line The sum of the squares of all four bends Is half the square of their sum. To spy out spherical affairs An oscular surveyor Might find the task laborious, The sphere is much the gayer, And now besides the pair of pairs A fifth sphere in the kissing shares. Yet, signs and zero as before, For each to kiss the other four The square of the sum of all five bends Is thrice the sum of their squares.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Kiss Precise refers to the , Soddy's rediscovery of , and more. See also: 1) The Kiss Precise, Soddy's Circle Theorem @pballew.blogspot.com, Pat'sBlog 2) "Alex Kontorovich - A Circle of Ideas: How the Round Sphere C…