Quote by Nick Stephenson

It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The…

— Martin Rees

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had…

— Jim Benton

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“The larger the searchlight, the bigger the circumference of the unknown. -anonymous physicist”

— Norm Schriever

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding…

— Simon van der Meer

“Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can't resist seeing how it happens.”

— Cracked.com

The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at…

— Bonnie Bassler

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

— Anonymous

May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to…

— Anonymous

“Deep in the nanoscale-size range, however, engineering encounters ultimate, atomic constraints on the size of even the simplest devices. Gears, shafts, and bearings, for…

— K. Eric Drexler

“Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much…

— Ilchi Lee

“The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a…

— G.K. Chesterton