Particles Quotes

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Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows… — William Blake
Everyone and everything that shows up in the world of form in this universe originates not from a particle, as quantum physics teaches us, but… — Wayne Dyer
(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied… — Lucretius
The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal… — Neil Armstrong
Creativity permeates the cosmos. It is the driving force that sustains the particles, the stars and galaxiesit surges through the body with each beat of… — F. David Peat
Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature… — Georg Cantor
The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other -… — Daniel Keyes
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited… — Leon M. Lederman
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion. — Henry Ward Beecher
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules… — Henry David Thoreau
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. — William Blake
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you… — Isaac Asimov
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works,… — Carl Sagan
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free… — Barbara Ehrenreich
We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary… — William H. Gass
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a… — Mary Roach
My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if… — Andrei Sakharov
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size,… — Johannes Stark

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