19th century Quote by Stefan Hell

“The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.”

— Richard J. Borden

Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were…

— Jean Baptiste Perrin

Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something…

— Dwight Schultz

It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was this belief…

— C. V. Raman

Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but…

— Albert Claude

It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not…

— Edgar Mitchell

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

— Werner Heisenberg

From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might…

— Victor Francis Hess

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

We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small;…

— Jason Silva

“After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905…

— Louis de Broglie