Bills Quote by Ralph Cavanagh

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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: may it never be of any use to anybody!

— Joseph John Thomson

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

— John Searle

“The electron that scientists see in the laboratory-the electron that physicists, chemists, and engineers have known and loved for decades-is an impostor. It is…

— Charles Seife

“People want electrons to orbit atoms like tiny planets, hard and regular. They make sense that way. People like that....they don't want their electrons…

— Adam Felber

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 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

Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for…

— Evalyn Walsh McLean

“It’s one thing when you plug into a socket in the wall and electrons flow,” said Bob Kahn. “It’s another thing when you have…

— Katie Hafner