Atoms Quote by Johannes Stark

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

There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

— Fred Hoyle

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

— Arthur Eddington

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements…

— Johannes Stark

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws…

— Leon M. Lederman

“... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression in the specific numerical value of the fine…

— Wolfgang Pauli

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the…

— Deepak Chopra

“Confusion helps. Confusion leads to lengthy reconstruction and clarification and exposition and several other "ions.”

— Harlan Coben

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes…

— Johannes Stark

In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts…

— Waldemar Kaempffert

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself…

— 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