Electrons Quote by Richard P. Feynman

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

— Richard P. Feynman

“The field of the electron is real because it results from the laws of quantum mechanics and appropriate initial conditions. The laws determine the…

— Henning Genz

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 is first of all your concept of the electron.

— Anonymous

“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

An electron is real; a probability is not.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!

— Joseph John Thomson

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

Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them.…

— Seth Lloyd

Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use…

— Wernher von Braun

“Special relativity killed the classical dream of using the energy-momentum-velocity relations of a particle as a means of probing the dynamic origins of its…

— Abraham Pais

“the strangely elusive and counterintuitive character of the quantum world has encouraged some to suggest that the idea of entities like electrons which can…

— John Polkinghorne