If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence... [View all]

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...passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe that it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms – little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart and repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

Richard P. Feynman
Lectures on Physics, 1963.

The Epigraph to...

ELEMENTS OF SLOW-NEUTRON SCATTERING
Basics, Techniques, and Applications

J . M. CARPENTER
C.-K. LOONG