Particles Quotes

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Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in… — John Dalton
No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into… — John Dalton
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical… — Michiko Kakutani
There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine… — Roger Penrose
Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and… — Anandamayi Ma
Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them. — Steven Weinberg
In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that… — John Gribbin
A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry:… — Brian Greene
Think how hard physics would be if particles could think — Murray Gell-Mann
I do not keep up with the details of particle physics. — Murray Gell-Mann
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
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts… — Eric Allin Cornell
We do not doubt to assert, that air does not serve for the motion of the lungs, but rather to communicate something to the blood… — John Mayow
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
Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of… — Roy H. Williams
Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop… — Mahmud Shabistari
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
The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of… — Elizabeth Ann Seton
We did not purify [isolate] ... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses ... They were very… — Luc Montagnier

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