Particle Quotes
158 Particle quotes by 123 unique authors
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Whatever you have committed wrong in the past or whatever you used to think of the future, the present becomes divine. And that divine present…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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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
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I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.
— Robin Ince
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I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle.
— Lisa Randall
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The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You…
— Lisa Randall
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Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged…
— Lisa Randall
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Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.
— Yayoi Kusama
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The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the…
— Alain Aspect
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I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge evolution in the…
— Peter Higgs
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The first interview I gave to the press was in 1987 when some people thought a previous machine at Cern, called LEP, might have enough…
— Peter Higgs
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I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.
— Alan Arkin
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Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality,…
— Ruth Ozeki
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There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.
— Heber J. Grant
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When blood is extracted from the human body and coagulates, every particle is of a peculiar form not duplicated by the particles of any other…
— Max Heindel
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Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when…
— James Gleick
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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
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The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.
— James Smithson
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous…
— Patrick White
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While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his…
— James Cronin
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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices
— Mark Twain
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The rational mind continually looks for similarities. A deeper mind sees the uniqueness in every particle and every situation.
— Ruben Papian
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A man giving challenge to God is like a particle of dust giving challenge to Storm.
— Vikrant Parsai
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The emission of a particle is exactly equivalent to the absorption of it's antiparticle. If this is true,(and I believe it is) we have the…
— Johnny Luckett
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Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new…
— Edward Witten
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