Able Quote by Serge Haroche

My PhD project was actually doing something that required a high-intensity laser. It was supposed to work in a way that many, many photons…

— Donna Strickland

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

We proved that we could increase laser intensity by orders of magnitude. In fact, CPA led to the most intense laser pulses ever recorded.…

— Donna Strickland

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It…

— Carl David Anderson

It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must…

— Ernst Mach

Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms…

— William Henry Bragg

I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process…

— Gilbert N. Lewis

What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom…

— Frederick Lenz

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

— Eric Allin Cornell

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone…

— Richard P. Feynman

For her PhD, Maria Goeppert Mayer, a theoretical physicist, came up with the idea of multi-photon physics. That means an atom absorbs two or…

— Donna Strickland

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

— Bill Bryson