Atoms Quote by Paul Ehrenfest

There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all the quantum…

— Wolfgang Pauli

“It is still a fairly astounding notion to consider that atoms are mostly empty space, and that the solidity we experience all around us…

— 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

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

The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

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

“But if electrons can exist in parallel states hovering between existence and nonexistence, then why can’t the universe? After all, at one point the…

— Michio Kaku

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

— Anonymous

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

...where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united...

— D. H. Lawrence

That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means…

— Peter Ritchie Calder

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