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

  John Desmond Bernal

  Gold, Glitter, May

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space

  Clifford D. Simak

  Thinking, Space, Orbit

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Choice of Gods”, p.101, Open Road Media

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

  Don Rittner

  Meaningful, Digital, Internet

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• In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.

  Frederick Reines

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• On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Moving On, Molecules, Moved On

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• Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

  John Polkinghorne

  Believe, Reality, World

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• We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Groups, Molecules, Atoms

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• The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Lines, Ratios, Size

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• We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

  Johannes Stark

  Experience, Rays, Atoms

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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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