Electrons Quotes

• I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

  Albert Einstein

  Independent, Reality, Thinking

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• Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

  Bill Bryson

  Giving, Personality, Identity

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.

  Frank Zappa

  Neutrons, Moron, Proton

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• All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Gold, Glitter, May

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• 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

  Real, Math, Understanding

  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman, p. 70, 1985.

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• If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Giving, Way

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• I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star.

  David Sarnoff

  Stars, Wagons, Proverbial

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• Keep your drunken electrons dancing!

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Dancing

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• Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

  Dave Barry

  Drinking, Book, Eye

  "The Taming of the Screw". Book by Dave Barry, 1983.

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• There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

  Fred Hoyle

  Two, Together, Atoms

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• It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Tables, Facts

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, Basic Books

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• The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

  Johannes Stark

  Mean, Atoms, Fundamentals

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• The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Atoms, Bottles

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• When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

  Bill Bryson

  Sitting, Height, Intimacy

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• An electron is real; a probability is not.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Real, Probability

  "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.

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

  Joseph John Thomson

  Use, May

  Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Volume 35, (p. 251), 1951.

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• According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Running, Moving, Law

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• In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Baseball, Science, Dust

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• This is our world now The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.

  Loyd Blankenship

  Our World, Hacking, Hackers

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• Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

  Don Rittner

  Meaningful, Digital, Internet

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• People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Darkness, Ghost

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

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• Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Ties, Atoms

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• I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231, 425, 076, 185, 631, 031, 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.

  Arthur Eddington

  Believe, Numbers, Mathematics

  1938 Tarner Lecture.

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• Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

  David Lehman

  Orbit, Fields, Used

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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• My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

  Henry Taube

  Chicago, Aspect, Interest

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