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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• 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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• If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Names, Remember

  "Hyperspace". Book by Michio Kaku, 1995.

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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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• 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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• In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the "Mind of God" is cosmic music resonating in 11 dimensional hyperspace.

  Michio Kaku

  Play, Symphony, Mind

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical — and maybe even experimental — grasp. Brand-new theoretical discoveries about extra dimensions have irreversibly changed how particle physicists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists now think about the world. The sheer number and pace of discoveries tells us that we've most likely only scratched the surface of the wondrous possibilities that lie in store. Ideas have taken on a life of their own.

  Lisa Randall

  Lying, Taken, Thinking

  "Warped Passages: Unraveling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions". Book by Lisa Randall, 2005.

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• [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

  Real, Atoms, World

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• My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Important, Branches, Problem

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• 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.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Understanding, Preparation

  Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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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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• We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you can rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff

  Annie Dillard

  Space, Light, Wind

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.35, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Roots, Unity, Neighbor

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• Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.

  Lady Gaga

  Memories, Forever, Atoms

  "Lady Gaga is 'Interrupted' in 'Marry the night' preview" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. November 17, 2011.

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• In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

  John Gribbin

  Reality, Significant Things, Everyday

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• You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Two, Piano, Energy

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• The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Poetry, Feelings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude

  Paul Auster

  Book, Men, Years

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.188, Faber & Faber

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• Soul, a particle of God, is blessed with the gift of creative imagination, which finds a solution for every problem.

  Harold Klemp

  Blessed, Imagination, Creative

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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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• At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

  Johannes Stark

  Light, Discovery, Facts

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• What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Running, Block, Book

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• The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Two, Analogies, Wave

  Werner Heisenberg (2013). “The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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