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- Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.
- When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth…
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- Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that… — Wernher von Braun
- Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the… — Werner Heisenberg
- It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead… — Werner Heisenberg
- There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions… — Arthur Eddington
- Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to… — Edward Teller
- The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the… — 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...… — Hermann Minkowski
- Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914… — 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… — Robert Andrews Millikan
- With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting… — Fritz Zwicky
- The Universal mind is not only intelligence, but it is substance, and this substance is the attractive force which brings electrons together… — Charles F. Haanel
- Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this… — Unknown Author