Electron Quotes

57 quotes by 43 authors

Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it… — Wernher von Braun
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more… — Werner Heisenberg
There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven… — Arthur Eddington
The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around… — Robert Andrews Millikan
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron… — Hermann Minkowski
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought… — Robert Andrews Millikan
From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the… — Robert Andrews Millikan
In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it,… — Waldemar Kaempffert
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even… — Albert Einstein
Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist.… — Napoleon Hill
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And matter is made… — Martin Gardner
The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self… — Starhawk
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 dollars.… — Ralph Cavanagh
I'mÂ usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for… — Kendrick Lamar
O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and… — Lise Meitner
On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains… — Pieter Zeeman
My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946. — Henry Taube
This is our world now The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. — Loyd Blankenship
The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in the Tao, all… — Laozi
Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the other direction. This… — Dave Barry

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