“Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
“The mystery about α is actually a double mystery. The first mystery – the origin of its numerical value α ≈ 1/137… — Malcolm H. Mac Gregor Copy Share Image
“Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“While twentieth-century physicists were not able to identify any convincing mathematical constants underlying the fine structure, partly because such thinking has normally… — Carl Johan Calleman Copy Share Image
“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“As I regard physics and psychology as complementary types of examination, I am certain that there is an equally valid way that… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“All integral laws of spectral lines and of atomic theory spring originally from the quantum theory. It is the mysterious organon on… — Arnold Sommerfeld Copy Share Image
“The fine-structure constant derives its name from its origin. It first appeared in Sommerfeld's work to explain the fine details of the… — John S. Rigden Copy Share Image
“If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“For [Wolfgang] Pauli the central problem of electrodynamics was the field concept and the existence of an elementary charge which is expressible… — Charles P. Enz Copy Share Image
“Now let us analyze the other two occupants of the inner Sanctuary or Oracle. They are the two cherubim who guard the… — William Eisen Copy Share Image
“The power of the deductive network produced in physics has been illustrated in a delightful article by Victor F. Weisskopf. He begins… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
“You too can make the golden cut, relating the two poles of your being in perfect golden proportion, thus enabling the lower… — Alison Charlotte Primrose Copy Share Image
“One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
“Was Giza the mirror of the sky? In addition, what was the number 137 purpose? The number 137 has a very amazing… — Armando Mei Copy Share Image
“Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows atoms to exist and also allows… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“Let us begin with the fine-structure constant. ... The fine-structure constant is really the ratio of two natural units or atoms of… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known… — Mario Livio Copy Share Image
“Dirac's equation not only accounted for the spin of the electron and its observed magnetic moment, but also correctly explained the fine… — Silvan S. Schweber Copy Share Image
“The bridge between the electron and the other elementary particles is provided by the fine structure constant. ... An expanded form of… — Malcolm H. Mac Gregor Copy Share Image
“Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
“We present a series of hypotheses and speculations, leading inescapably to the conclusion that SU(5) is the gauge group of the world… — Howard Georgi & S. L. Glashow Copy Share Image
“Through Jung [Pauli] became very interested in various kinds of mysticism, including Jewish mysticism. This led Pauli to develop a friendship with… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf Copy Share Image
“Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“God is a pure mathematician!' declared British astronomer Sir James Jeans. The physical Universe does seem to be organised around elegant mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“It is shown that the golden ratio plays a prominent role in the dimensions of all objects which exhibit five-fold symmetry. It… — Richard A. Dunlap Copy Share Image
“To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that… — Charles P. Enz Copy Share Image
“We can measure the fine structure constant with very great precision, but so far none of our theories has provided an explanation… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“True, the Standard Model does explain a very great deal. Nevertheless it is not yet a proper theory, principally because it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Quite obviously, a theoretical determination of the numerical value of α would signify great progress in our understanding of fundamental interactions. Many… — Harald Fritzsch Copy Share Image
“The unsolved problems of the physical world now seem even more formidable than those solved in the twentieth century. Though in application… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
“The fine-structure constant is ubiquitous throughout physics. I’ve already noted its connection to the electromagnetic interaction. In atomic physics, the binding energy,… — Gerald Gabrielse Copy Share Image
“There is only one universal language, which is the language of numbers and proportions that are so striking and stunningly built into… — Willem Witteveen Copy Share Image
“In short, the idea dawns that the one universal principle which possibly ... between force and structure, the embodiment of the Principle… — Marja de Vries Copy Share Image
“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession"… — Todd Hayen Copy Share Image
“A good example of the archetypal ideas which the archetypes produce are natural numbers or integers. With the aid of the integers… — K. V. Laurikainen Copy Share Image
“In the context of physics, 137 is equal to the integer part of the inverse of the fine structure constant ... The… — Leon O Chua Copy Share Image
![“The fine-structure constant derives its name from its origin. It first appeared in Sommerfeld's work to explain the fine details of the hydrogen spectrum. ... Since Sommerfeld expressed the energy states of the hydrogen atom in terms of the constant [alpha], it came to be called the fine-structure…” quote by John S. Rigden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/576/john-s-rigden-249641_fine-structure-const_the-fine-structure-constant-derives-its_1276948.jpg)
![“For [Wolfgang] Pauli the central problem of electrodynamics was the field concept and the existence of an elementary charge which is expressible by the fine-structure constant ... 1/137. This fundamental pure number had greatly fascinated Pauli, … For Pauli the explanation of the number 137 was…” quote by Charles P. Enz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/243/charles-p-enz-91251_fine-structure-const_for-wolfgang-pauli-the-central-problem-o_862023.jpg)
![“Now let us analyze the other two occupants of the inner Sanctuary or Oracle. They are the two cherubim who guard the Ark ... [and] "The Molten Sea" ...There are also two other elements of the Temple of which they are the image, and these other two units are the Great Pyramid and the Inner Court…” quote by William Eisen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/36d/william-eisen-84122_ancient-history_now-let-us-analyze-the-other-two-occupan_275621.jpg)
![“Through Jung [Pauli] became very interested in various kinds of mysticism, including Jewish mysticism. This led Pauli to develop a friendship with Gershom Scholem, the world's greatest authority in that field and in the Cabala, … On one occasion Scholem asked me to tell him about unsolved problems…” quote by Victor Frederick Weisskopf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fe0/victor-frederick-weisskopf-451_137_through-jung-pauli-became-very-intereste_269318.jpg)
![“In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that only a formulation of quantum theory would be satisfactory which expresses the relation between the value of [the fine structure constant] and charge conservation…” quote by Charles P. Enz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a96/charles-p-enz-91251_fine-structure-const_in-his-first-philosophical-lecture-on-mo_1764442.jpg)
