Electrons Quotes

• Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Universe
  • Connected
  • Resonate

• “After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalised by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons.”

  

  Louis de Broglie
  • Discovery
  • Electrons
  • Generalised

• There is one simplification at least. Electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in exactly in the same way.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Way
  • Behave
  • Simplification

• New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Radio
  • Dust
  • Microscopes

• So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • World
  • Remember
  • Together

• While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

  

  Ivar Giaever
  • Behavior
  • Mechanic
  • Quantum

• 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 Feynman
  • Science
  • Impression
  • Behave

• The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Stories
  • Electrons
  • Human World

• 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
  • Interest
  • Chicago
  • Aspect

• When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do some kind of dance, the net result of which is the same as if the photon hit only on the surface.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Kind
  • Results
  • Glasses

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

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Facts
  • Tables
  • Electrons

• The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Real
  • Theory
  • Electrons