Admire Quote by Hermann Minkowski

“Special relativity killed the classical dream of using the energy-momentum-velocity relations of a particle as a means of probing the dynamic origins of its…

— Abraham Pais

Nothing is rigid, and everything is movable.

— Mandy Ingber

...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

No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum mechanics. Of…

— Paul Dirac

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be…

— Arthur Eddington

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

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

The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!

— Joseph John Thomson

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

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

— Richard P. Feynman

Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use…

— Wernher von Braun

“The electron that scientists see in the laboratory-the electron that physicists, chemists, and engineers have known and loved for decades-is an impostor. It is…

— Charles Seife