Atoms Quote by Arthur Eddington

Leave the atom alone.

— Anonymous

Now I know what the atom looks like.

— Ernest Rutherford

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

— Joseph John Thomson

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

I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.

— Lewis Carroll

“Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can…

— John Gribbin

I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.

— Paul Tibbets

...where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united...

— D. H. Lawrence

The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means…

— Peter Ritchie Calder

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second…

— Johannes Stark