Atoms Quote by D. H. Lawrence

“It is still a fairly astounding notion to consider that atoms are mostly empty space, and that the solidity we experience all around us…

— Bill Bryson

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

— Anonymous

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum…

— Pieter Zeeman

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

— Richard P. Feynman

Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to…

— Pieter Zeeman

“Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can…

— John Gribbin

“People want electrons to orbit atoms like tiny planets, hard and regular. They make sense that way. People like that…they don't want their electrons…

— Adam Felber

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred…

— Bill Bryson

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.

— Swami Vivekananda

There is one simplification at least. Electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in exactly in…

— Richard P. Feynman

If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their…

— Richard P. Feynman

I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their…

— Hermann von Helmholtz