Particle Quotes

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. (Henry James)
Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards. View quote
A. E. Waite
A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence. View quote
Steven Weinberg
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. View quote
William Blake
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave---that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium---or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave. View quote
Lawrence M. Krauss
I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity. View quote
Murray Gell-Mann
Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries. View quote
Leon M. Lederman
A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept. View quote
Kiran Desai
Inflation is really like drugging the baby universe with speed. The supercool union of the hitherto unfriendly gods was blessed by amphetamine, and this made the universe inflate rather than just expand. The early orgy of expansion in the universe comes to an abrupt end as soon as the supercooled particle stuff finally freezes. View quote
João Magueijo
One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricity by not trying to demonstrate it. (Joe Haldeman)
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Which came first - the observer or the particle? View quote
Vanna Bonta
What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave. View quote
Vanna Bonta
How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? ... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination. View quote
Vanna Bonta
A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right. View quote
Richard Dawkins
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. View quote
Lisa Randall
Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected. View quote
Wolfgang Pauli
So far Unitarian realism claiming to possess positive knowledge about Ultimate Reality has succeeded only by excluding large areas of phenomena or by declaring, without proof, that they could be reduced to basic theory, which, in this connection, means elementary particle physics. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric. (Osamu Dazai)
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity. View quote
Ariel Durant
The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other. View quote
James Smithson
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. View quote
Jane Porter
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. View quote
Robin Ince