Entity Quote by Henry Stapp

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

— Steven Weinberg

“The elementary particles are often dubbed the atoms of our day. That may or may not be correct. It might be an acceptable metaphor…

— Henning Genz

“Ask a physics teacher: Why do elementary particles exist? Is it impossible for them not to exist? (Be prepared for the possibility that your…

— William Lane Craig

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

— Werner Heisenberg

“There is an idea - strange, haunting, evocative - one of the most exquisite conjectures in science and religion. It is entirely undemonstrated; it…

— Carl Sagan

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

I work in string theory. This is a branch of physics which assumes that the elementary objects in the universe are not particles but…

— Ashoke Sen

We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.

— Werner Heisenberg

I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous…

— Leonard Susskind

“Up to about thirty years ago, it was thought that protons and neutrons were “elementary” particles, but experiments in which protons were collided with…

— Stephen Hawking

“The bridge between the electron and the other elementary particles is provided by the fine structure constant. ... An expanded form of the constant…

— Malcolm H. Mac Gregor

There is often times a confusion of things, of particles, of the concepts considered essential whence theorems, laws, concepts are born that no one…

— Mariana Fulger