Particles Quotes

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That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because… — Peter Higgs
When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to… — Richard P. Feynman
Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction. — Lee Smolin
Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string… — Lee Smolin
The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as… — Bob Blumer
The field is the sole influence of the particle. — Albert Einstein
When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of… — Nikola Tesla
Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao. — Laozi
It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because… — Lucretius
Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take… — Adam Riess
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too,… — Huston Smith
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. — Henry David Thoreau
Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it. — Swami Vivekananda
If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with… — Henry Ward Beecher
My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators. — Simon van der Meer
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a… — Barbara Brennan
I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and… — Nikola Tesla
If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics? — Aaron D. O'Connell
But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in… — Wang Anyi
Donâ€™t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as… — Olav H. Hauge

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