Associated Quote by Louis de Broglie

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

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

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

Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them.…

— Seth Lloyd

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

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Joseph John Thomson

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

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal…

— 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

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

“Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can…

— John Gribbin

“The intangible, as you can guess, creates some decidedly strange and perceived dichotomies for scientific interpretations. Ask a scientist what the definition of electricity…

— H.D. Rennerfeldt