Frederick Soddy
Frederick Soddy
Frederick Soddy FRSwas 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth2 September 1877
believe past atomic-energy
I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.
real past records
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.
military men bombs
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities.
philosophy teaching men
The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.
wind civilization doe
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.
alternatives honest
An honest money system is the only alternative.
beautiful scary mood
Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
science invasion reason-why
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.
today banking profit
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
passion order age
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain, and brings in perennial interest.