Atoms Quote by Johannes Stark

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

— Fred Hoyle

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

— Johannes Stark

The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave…

— Louis de Broglie

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

— Joseph John Thomson

...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

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

— Arthur Eddington

We bombarded aluminum with alpha rays … then after a certain period of irradiation, we removed the source of alpha rays. We now observed…

— Frederic Joliot-Curie

“Also unlike a planet, an electron—if excited by heat or light—can leap from its low-energy shell to an empty, high-energy shell. The electron cannot…

— Sam Kean

An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as…

— Arthur Eddington

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm positive I lost an electron, I better keep an ion that.

— Anonymous

“Shine light on electrons you'll cause them to swerve./ The act of observing disturbs the observed.”

— Anonymous