Elementary Particle Quotes
- I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative… — Murray Gell-Mann
- String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a… — Edward Witten
- An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things. — Henry Stapp
- In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle… — Antonino Zichichi
- It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it… — Edward Witten
- My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is… — Murray Gell-Mann
- I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection… — Leonard Susskind