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The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

Quote by Johannes Stark about physics, atoms, change

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

Quote by Kathy Acker about society, love

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, humanity, nature, things

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein...

Quote by Joseph Addison about education, body, soul, human imperfections

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling...

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Quote by Michael Caine

The intention of the reef is to reduce the surface of the sail in proportion to the increase of the wind; for which reason there are several reefs parallel to each other in the superior sails, whereby they may be still further diminished, in order...

Quote by William Falconer about intention, order, reason

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Quote by Mel Gibson about conversation, marriage

When my mother died, I was 17 years old, and I literally got on a plane and flew to America, and didn't really come back. I have been back to Ireland in short spurts, just skimming the surface of my formative years.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about parents, mother, old, olderness

A shatterproof object will always fall on the only...

A shatterproof object will always fall on the only surface hard enough to crack or break it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fall

If there's a flat surface, someone will put something on it.

If there's a flat surface, someone will put something on it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Women have the right to say this is surface, this...

Women have the right to say this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

Quote by Tillie Olsen about woman, reality, rightness

Vanity is but the surface.

Vanity is but the surface.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about proudness, vanity

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about body, world

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with...

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about things

It is already difficult to realize that a mere twenty...

It is already difficult to realize that a mere twenty years ago poverty was taken almost for granted over most of the earth's surface.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about poverty, earth

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, ...

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

Quote by Johannes Stark about physics, atoms, circumstances, experience

The small gifts Small gifts of air and tired light, Of a more distant God. Vague signs On the back of his graphs. When everything you have love is sinking slowly In air, light, in the mud of brain... And remain... What remain? Small...

Quote by Alexandru Musina about gifts, air, light, astrology, brain, god, things, dream, fall, eyes

Man has been searching for the true meaning of life since the very beginning of time, and still, we have just scratched the surface. As we as humans evolve over time, maybe one day that answer will be found, but until then, may we continue to...

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about life, searching, people, time, beginning, day, man

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