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Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.

~Frederick Soddy

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An honest money system is the only alternative.

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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.

~Frederick Soddy

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Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

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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.

~Frederick Soddy

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There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

~Frederick Soddy

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In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

~Frederick Soddy

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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.

~Frederick Soddy

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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.

~Frederick Soddy

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: September 2nd, 1877

Died: September 22nd, 1956

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