Antimatter Quotes

• I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  May, Strange, Belgians

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Matter, Annihilation

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• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Energy, Source, Method

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

  Peter David

  Opposites, Matter, Magnetism

  Peter David (2000). “A Rock and a Hard Place”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

  Werner Heisenberg (1985). “Gesammelte Werke”

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• If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, Land, Leader

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of one and minus one. Together they add up to zero, nothing, nada, niente, right? Picture them together, then picture them separating-peeling apart. ... Now you have something, you have two somethings, where once you had nothing.

  John Updike

  Zero, Mean, Science

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• What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter?

  Wes Nisker

  Doe, Matter, Existence

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• Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

  Stephen Young

  Morality, Behavior, Profit

  Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.87, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• There's nothing cooler than someone explaining to you, as if it was easy, how they create antimatter. And they kept saying things like, "Well obviously you know that..."

  Will Farquarson

  Easy, Explaining, Wells

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Relationships carry the whole universe within them. They can be everything, nothing, here, then gone. One moment, loving someone makes you shine; the next, it feels like matter and antimatter colliding.

  Judith Orloff

  Relationship, Loving Someone, Shining

  Judith Orloff (2012). “Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing: 5 Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness”, p.232, Harmony

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• God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter"

  Dan Brown

  Opposites, Light, Heaven

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• Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Dream, Stars, Spring

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am" "Unbelievable," I said in disgust. "What's unbelievable?" "Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!

  Lisa Kleypas

  Clouds, Losing Someone, Ego

  Lisa Kleypas (2017). “The Travis Family, The Complete Series: Blue Eyed Devil, Smooth Talking Stranger, Sugar Daddy, and Brown-Eyed Girl”, p.299, Macmillan

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