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16 quotes by Frederick Soddy

Frederick Soddy FRS (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements.
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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... →

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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... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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An honest money system is the only alternative.

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

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

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

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On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

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The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

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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... →

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To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing... →

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