Frederick Soddy - Matter and energy (1912)

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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. [But]...the still unrecognized 'energy problem'..awaits the future.

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An ingenious theory of gravitation was put forward a century ago which, though not accepted, is very suggestive, and illustrates the difference between what science would consider a real cause and one that is fictitious, like the "force of gravity".

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Mere accumulations of knowledge, sifted, classified, and reduced to their final most concise expression in a series of text-books, are little more than the sepulchral monument of science.

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Forces are not conserved, they have no physical existence, but they still survive even in scientific parlance, mainly because of the poverty of the language, which hardly allows effects to be expressed, without some causal inference.

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Yet the atom, for all that, is not Nature's unit, but ours.

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