Atoms Quote by Fred Hoyle

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second…

— Johannes Stark

Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

— Arthur Eddington

Leave the atom alone.

— Anonymous

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

— John Searle

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural…

— Johannes Stark

...where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united...

— 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

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

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

— Richard P. Feynman

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it…

— David Sedaris

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they…

— Seth Lloyd