Abandon Quote by Werner Heisenberg

I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous…

— Leonard Susskind

“Yet, despite the symmetry of the laws of Nature, we observe the outcomes of those symmetrical laws to be assymetrical states and structures.”

— John D. Barrow

“To date, we don't know of any object that cannot, for certain, be subdivided. The chemist's atom consists of nucleus and electrons; the nucleus…

— Henning Genz

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

— Nicole Krauss

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

— Steven Weinberg

“Ask a physics teacher: Why do elementary particles exist? Is it impossible for them not to exist? (Be prepared for the possibility that your…

— William Lane Craig

An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.

— Henry Stapp

“Particle physicists are the most deeply Platonic because their entire subject is built upon a belief that the deepest workings of the world are…

— John D. Barrow

Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry…

— Steven Weinberg

“The elementary particles are often dubbed the atoms of our day. That may or may not be correct. It might be an acceptable metaphor…

— Henning Genz

Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually…

— Tsung-Dao Lee