Property Quote by Mildred Dresselhaus

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why…

— Richard P. Feynman

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

— Neil Gaiman

See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd…

— Alexander Pope

The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material…

— Werner Heisenberg

I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical…

— Donald Cram

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

— Ursus Wehrli

Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity…

— Neil Turok

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more…

— Jean-Baptiste Dumas

Chemistry is the science of atoms. Elaborating on Democritus' idea, chemists learn how atoms stick or don't stick together, thus forming molecules.

— Jacques Dubochet

“Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls. That’s kindergarten…

— Sol Luckman