Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

The idea of an indivisible atom is inconceivable by the lay mind. If we can conceive an idea of the atom at all, we can conceive it as capable of being cut in half...


Samuel Butler's Notebooks (p. 84), Jonathan Cape. 1951


The idea of an indivisible atom is inconceivable by the lay mind. If we can conceive an idea of the atom at all, we can conceive it as capable of...

The idea of an indivisible atom is inconceivable by the lay mind. If we can conceive an idea of the atom at all, we can conceive it as capable of...

The idea of an indivisible atom is inconceivable by the lay mind. If we can conceive an idea of the atom at all, we can conceive it as capable of...

The idea of an indivisible atom is inconceivable by the lay mind. If we can conceive an idea of the atom at all, we can conceive it as capable of...