Frases de Peter Atkins (10 citas)

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Frases célebres de Peter Atkins

“La idea de que el mundo tiende a ir peor, que sucumbe sin propósito alguno en la corrupción [en la corrupción de la calidad de la energía], es la gran idea encarnada en la Segunda Ley de la Termodinámica.”

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“Saber que todos los cambios que se producen a nuestro alrededor son manifestaciones de esta degradación es de una perspicacia extraordinaria.”

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“Afirmar que Dios lo hizo no es más que un reconocimiento de la ignorancia disfrazada en una explicación.”

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“El resorte del Universo tal como nos desvela la Segunda Ley consiste en su degradación imparable a medida que la energía y la materia se expanden desordenadamente.”

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Peter Atkins: Frases en inglés

“It was a great achievement of the early chemists — with the crude experimental techniques available also with the ever-astonishing power of human reason (as potent then as now) — to discover this reduction of the world to its components, the chemical elements. Such reduction does not destroy its charm but adds understanding to sensation, and this understanding only deepens our delight.”

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Fuente: Periodic Kingdom (1995), p. 147-148

“The kingdom is not an amorphous jumble of regions, but a closely organized state in which the character of one region is close to that of its neighbor. There are few sharp boundaries. Rather, the landscape is largely characterized by transitions …”

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Fuente: Periodic Kingdom (1995), Chapter 1. The Terrain

“I have presented the periodic table as a kind of travel guide to an imaginary country, of which the elements are the various regions. This kingdom has a geography: the elements lie in particular juxtaposition to one another, and they are used to produce goods, much as a prairie produces wheat and a lake produces fish. It also has a history. Indeed, it has three kinds of history: the elements were discovered much as the lands of the world were discovered; the kingdom was mapped, just as the world was mapped, and the relative positions of the elements came to take on a great significance; and the elements have their own cosmic history, which can be traced back to the stars.”

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Preface
Periodic Kingdom (1995)

“The general disposition of the land is one of metals in the west, giving way, as you travel eastward, to a varied landscape of nonmetals, which terminates in largely inert elements at the eastern shoreline. To the south of the mainland, there is an offshore island, which we shall call the Southern Island. It consists entirely of metals of subtly modulated personality. North of the mainland, situated rather like Iceland off the northwestern edge of Europe, lies a single, isolated region-hydrogen. This simple but gifted element is an essential outpost of the kingdom, for despite its simplicity it is rich in chemical personality. It is also the most abundant element in the universe and the fuel of the stars.”

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Fuente: Periodic Kingdom (1995), Chapter 1. The Terrain

“This is the kingdom of the chemical elements, the substances from which everything tangible is made. It is not an extensive country, for it consists of only a hundred or so regions (as we shall often term the elements), yet it accounts for everything material in our actual world. From the hundred elements that are at the center of our story, all planets, rocks, vegetation, and animals are made. These elements are the basis of the air, the oceans, and the Earth itself. We stand on the elements, we eat the elements, we are the elements. Because our brains are made up of elements, even our opinions are, in a sense, properties of the elements and hence inhabitants of the kingdom.”

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Fuente: Periodic Kingdom (1995), Chapter 1. The Terrain

“Chemistry is the science of matter and the changes it can undergo. The world of chemistry therefore embraces everything material around us—the stones we stand on, the food we eat, the flesh we are made of, and the silicon we build into computers. There is nothing material beyond the reach of chemistry, be it living or dead, vegetable or mineral, on Earth or in a distant star.”

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Peter Atkins and Loretta Jones, Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight, 4th ed. (2008)

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