Character Quote by Max Born

“But, in 1927, Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer in the US and George Thomson in Scotland demonstrated that electrons could interfere with each other,…

— Marcus Chown

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 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

“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an atom. That's…

— Richard Feynman

“Electrons and photons are still worse. In graduate school I roomed for a time with a particle physicist. He ended one attempt to explain…

— Steven Vogel

“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

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

— Richard P. Feynman

“ His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever…

— Joseph John Thomson

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

— Joseph John Thomson

I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

— Mark Oliver Everett

“The great German physicist Max Planck had been advised by his lecturer, the marvellously named Philipp von Jolly, not to pursue the study of…

— J.M.R. Higgs