It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights …

- Francis William Aston

Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infi…

- Francis William Aston

If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings…

- Francis William Aston

[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the …

- Francis William Aston

Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will…

- Francis William Aston