Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.

Frederick Soddy's Popular Quotes

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

- Frederick Soddy

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 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

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 honest money system is the only alternative.

- Frederick Soddy

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

- 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

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…

- Frederick Soddy