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The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It…

— Carl David Anderson

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

— Rudolf Arnheim

“in the forty-five years centered on 1910, the nature of the atom was first understood—partly by shooting pieces of atoms at atoms and watching…

— Carl Sagan

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but…

— Erwin Schrodinger

“In modern science the methods of analysis are principally applied to investigating the nature of material entities. Thus, the ultimate nature of matter is…

— Padmasambhava

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself…

— Johannes Stark

I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks.…

— William Albert Allard

One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same…

— William Huggins

It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must…

— Ernst Mach

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

— John Maynard Keynes

Now I know what the atom looks like.

— Ernest Rutherford

“I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which the atomic…

— Wilhelm Ostwald