Particle Quotes
158 Particle quotes by 123 unique authors
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The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right
— Neil Peart
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The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them.…
— Gregory David Roberts
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I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets…
— Neal Stephenson
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That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show…
— Anne Rice
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A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived…
— Kiran Desai
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What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss…
— Katherine Mansfield
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I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep…
— Annie Dillard
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These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If…
— Deborah Harkness
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[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words…
— Paul Auster
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I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak…
— Osamu Dazai
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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
— Mark Twain
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Which came first — the observer or the particle?
— Vanna Bonta
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We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to…
— Neil Gaiman
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How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or…
— Mark Strand
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There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have…
— Neil Gaiman
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most…
— Anne Rice
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