"The removal of an electron from the surface……" — Johannes Stark
"The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer."
More Atom Quotes
- Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. — Henry Adams
- The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust… — Annie Besant
- A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. — Niels Bohr
- We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. — Omar N. Bradley
- Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst… — Lord Byron
- Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
- It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything,… — Gerard De Nerval
- Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance… — Ernest Rutherford
- I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I… — Mark Twain
- Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to… — Deepak Chopra
- [When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover… — Albert Einstein