Communication Quote by William Lane Craig

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

— Steven Weinberg

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

“Electrons and photons are still worse. In graduate school I roomed for a time with a particle physicist. He ended one attempt to explain…

— Steven Vogel

“In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment several things…

— Philip Pullman

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

“The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.”

— Lara Santoro

“They, however, never occur in practice, only in the mind of the physicist.”

— Manjit Kumar

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

— Werner Heisenberg

I work in string theory. This is a branch of physics which assumes that the elementary objects in the universe are not particles but…

— Ashoke Sen

“But teaching students to ask that question, independent of subject matter knowledge, won’t do much good.”

— Terry Marselle

“A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.”

— Oliver Butterworth

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think

— Murray Gell-Mann