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Professor Sommerfeld first described the Rutherford idea of the structure of the atom following which he compared the atom to the stellar and solar system. He pointed out that, in general, material that is amassed is qualitative rather than quantitative except in the cases of hydrogen and helium...
...consider "Science 1"; ultimately it would probably cover, under the general topic "the structure of matter", the electron, the atom, the molecule, and all the various phenomena that are classified under such heads. And in addition it would point out the relationship between these phenomena and the phenomena of astronomy. "Science 2" would be concerned essentially with evolution, both of organic and inorganic substances. These are fields of so great importance and such large scope that the course could easily include as well the main principles of botany and zoology...
Surely if there have been written such texts as Duncan's "The New Knowledge" or the "Inside of the Atom", Harvard can give a course suited to the many searchers after that board knowledge necessary to culture and speculation. Must they always be plunged unwittingly into chemistry courses for the specialist? Will Harvard offer no rival attraction to the Lowell Institute lectures...
...discovery would not affect in the least the usefulness of the atomic theory as regards all ordinary chemical processes--but we might well, perhaps, find another name for that which we now call an 'atom', because the word 'atom' indicates indivisibility...
...country right up to the breaking point,--a finish fight, with no holds or blows barred, that will take every grain of sand we have, and every ounce of fighting strength to win. And so I'm in it on that basis, and if it is possible for one atom in the mass to influence the result I am either going to influence it or be killed trying...