Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess …

- Frederick Soddy

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

- Frederick Soddy

The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem solved is dead…

- Frederick Soddy

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes i…

- Frederick Soddy

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

- Frederick Soddy

An honest money system is the only alternative.

- Frederick Soddy

I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.

- Frederick Soddy

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

- Frederick Soddy

The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in or…

- Frederick Soddy