Carrier Quote by Mildred Dresselhaus

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“When you put that liquid helium on the conductor, the wobble energy in the copper atoms is transferred to the helium atoms, which then…

— Kelly Weinersmith

You get much more heat when you do something current.

— Oliver Stone

An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you can your…

— Ralph Cavanagh

In the process of making nanomaterials, we learned that with the electronic density of states, the phonon electronic properties and everything change at the…

— Mildred Dresselhaus

It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

— Bob Gill

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

— Leonard Bernstein

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as…

— Benjamin Franklin

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

— Benjamin Franklin

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred…

— Bill Bryson

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

— Richard P. Feynman

No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

— Paul Ehrenfest