Atoms Quote by Waldemar Kaempffert

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 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

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

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

— Anonymous

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 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

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

— Margaret Cavendish

No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

— Paul Ehrenfest

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

— Joseph John Thomson

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

— Dean Radin

Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive…

— Erwin Schrodinger

Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to…

— Michael Faraday