Atoms Quote by Bill Bryson

“When you ask what are electrons and protons I ought to answer that this question is not a profitable one to ask and does…

— Paul A.M. Dirac

Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to…

— Michael Faraday

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why…

— Richard P. Feynman

“In a Newtonian world, all physical quantities, like energy and spin, can take on any values whatsoever. They range over the entire continuum of…

— John D. Barrow

Now I know what the atom looks like.

— Ernest Rutherford

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

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

But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very…

— Michael Faraday

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

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

— John Searle

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

— Bill Bryson