Books Quote by Felix Alba-Juez

“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

In a gas, motion has the upper hand; the atoms are moving so fast that they have no time to enter into any sort…

— William Henry Bragg

“Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls. That’s kindergarten…

— Sol Luckman

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

— Simon Newcomb

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

— Gregory Bateson

I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes…

— Alfred Kastler

“The new law that he predicted seemed to defy common sense. It was that the viscosity of a gas-the internal frictional that causes drag…

— Basil Mahon

So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are…

— James Clerk Maxwell

If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up,…

— Joseph John Thomson

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if…

— David Duchovny

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way…

— John Gribbin

You know, people ask, "How does the chemistry happen?" It's like being in a bar when you're drunk. You see the person, and you…

— Sandra Bullock