Famous quotes containing the words noble, gas and/or atom:
“When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)