Particles 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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• Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Swings, Space, Trying

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 23, 2017

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• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

  Ariel Durant

  Infinity, Philosopher, Now And Then

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1975). “The Story of Civilization: The age of Napoleon; a history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815”

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• Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

  Joan Jett

  Strong, Together, Life Is

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• Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love.

  Rumi

  Light

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• They are the chosen ones
  who have surrendered ...
  Once they were particles of light
  now they are the radiant sun!

  Rumi

  Light, Sun, Chosen One

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The PrIVILeged Lovers”

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• The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Science, Space, Clerks

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspiration, Light, Dna

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• A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Preparation, Analysis, Measurement

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• When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Real, Distance, Smartphones

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

  C. F. Powell

  Matter, Recognition, Form

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• The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Energy, Different, Sparks

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• Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Dream, Responsibility, Science

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• I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?

  Florence Welch

  Song, Father, Nice

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• The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Body, Earth, Spirit

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.313, Penguin

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• All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Fashion, Art, Past

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• Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

  Roy H. Williams

  Powerful, Men, Mind

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• Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of the integrated circuit chip, laser and fiber optic technologies, Particle beams, Electromagnetic propulsion systems, Depleted uranium projectiles, Stealth capabilities, and many others! How do I know? I was in charge! A matter of public record I think the kids on this planet are wise to the truth, and I think we ought to give it to them. I think they deserve it.

  Philip J. Corso

  Wise, Kids, Thinking

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• Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Opposites, Two, Ends

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• Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

  Dan Brown

  Faith, Religious, Jesus

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Life, Poetry

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• All the particles of the World are in Love
  and looking for Lovers.

  Rumi

  Looking For Love, World, Lovers

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.58, Shambhala Publications

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• For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

  William Blake

  Truth, Hair, Dust

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.686, Pearson Education

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• As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethoven's last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.

  Jeremy Denk

  Finals, Movement, Thumbs

  "Every Good Boy Does Fine" by Jeremy Denk, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2013.

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