Quote by John Gribbin

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way…

— John Gribbin

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues…

— Albert Einstein

But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later…

— Arthur Eddington

When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description.…

— Niels Bohr

“People want electrons to orbit atoms like tiny planets, hard and regular. They make sense that way. People like that....they don't want their electrons…

— Adam Felber

“In a Newtonian world, all physical quantities, like energy and spin, can take on any values whatsoever. They range over the entire continuum of…

— John D. Barrow

“First, energy is quantised: in atoms it does not take on all possible values but only a ladder of specific values whose separation is…

— John D. Barrow

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some…

— Noam Chomsky

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom would be solved when physicists had…

— Arnold Sommerfeld

“In every atom, there is a reflection of the whole.”

— Jay Woodman

Now I know what the atom looks like.

— Ernest Rutherford