... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric…

“If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of all the…

— John D. Barrow

“We can measure the fine structure constant with very great precision, but so far none of our theories has provided an explanation of its…

— John D. Barrow

“Since only a narrow range of the allowed values for, say, the fine structure constant will permit observers to exist in the Universe, we…

— John D. Barrow

“The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the unsolved problems of modern physics.”

— Wolfgang Pauli

“We needn't bother with exactly what 'electric charge' means here.”

— Richard Dawkins

“We know there is a conservation law for electric charge; this simply means that the sum of these charges in any process remains constant.…

— Henning Genz

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks,…

— Anonymous

“there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws that within…

— Albert Einstein

“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession" is Jung…

— Todd Hayen

“There is only one universal language, which is the language of numbers and proportions that are so striking and stunningly built into the Great…

— Willem Witteveen

“The power of the deductive network produced in physics has been illustrated in a delightful article by Victor F. Weisskopf. He begins by taking…

— Gerald Holton

“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an atom. That's…

— Richard Feynman

“The unsolved problems of the physical world now seem even more formidable than those solved in the twentieth century. Though in application it works…

— Gerald Holton

“The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.”

— Richard Heath

“Highly complex numbers like the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and Phi (sometimes called the Golden Proportion), are known as irrational numbers. They lie deep…

— Mark Booth Jonathan Black