Electrons Quote by Arthur Eddington

“The electron that scientists see in the laboratory-the electron that physicists, chemists, and engineers have known and loved for decades-is an impostor. It is…

— Charles Seife

In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts…

— Waldemar Kaempffert

The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!

— Joseph John Thomson

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be…

— Arthur Eddington

The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave…

— Louis de Broglie

An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you can your…

— Ralph Cavanagh

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

— Anonymous

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

— Richard P. Feynman

An electron is real; a probability is not.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

— Dean Radin

“Quantum mechanics has a similar problem, a problem related to the zero-point energy. The laws of quantum mechanics treat particles such as the electron…

— Charles Seife

Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them.…

— Seth Lloyd