Ronald Campbell Macfie Quotes

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The atoms and molecules are as real as the ice-crystals in the cirrus clouds that he cannot reach — as real as the unseen members of a meteoric swarm whose death-glow is lost in the sunshine, or which past us unentangled in the night" — that the atoms are in fact "not merely helps to puzzled mathematicians, but physical realities."

Ronald Campbell Macfie
Little wonder that God can make souls when his clay is star-clusters!

Ronald Campbell Macfie
Atoms and molecules have been weighed; they have been proved to dance, they have been persuaded to wed, and yet their shape is still unknown.

Ronald Campbell Macfie
It is time that men knew that Science does not write with the cold finger of a starfish; it is time that men realized that true science is not a mere compilation of dead facts; it is time that men understood that Science is flamboyant and alive.

Ronald Campbell Macfie
Nature never errs in the long-run. She made man from a shred of the Milky Way, and she may be trusted to look after the creature she has made.

Ronald Campbell Macfie
The most wonderful thing about atoms and molecules is not their power of destroying, but their powers of creating. They themselves choose their partners, and their partnerships have made the world as we know it.

Ronald Campbell Macfie
The God of Science speaks in the thunder and smiles in the sunshine. He is so great that the stars eddy round his feet not ankle-high, yet so loving that He makes roses and sunsets for the human heart.

Ronald Campbell Macfie
Matter is the miracle of miracles, the most mystical of all things mystical.

Ronald Campbell Macfie