Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.
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The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.
By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.
The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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