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I think we're part of a greater wisdom that we will ever understand; a higher order, call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. It doesn't punish, it doesn't reward, it doesn't judge at all. It just is. -- George Carlin
In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino. -- Frederick Reines
You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA. -- Craig Venter
On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals. -- Dan Shechtman
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
We had to understand things like why the top quark was so heavy and the electron is so light. The Higgs is a big, important step. -- Fabiola Gianotti
When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy. -- Christian de Duve
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
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest. -- Pieter Zeeman
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
Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions. -- Pieter Zeeman
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
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
In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes. -- Pieter Zeeman
The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted. -- Louis de Broglie
Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on. -- Brian Greene
When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage. -- Michio Kaku
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
I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art. -- Tom Freston
On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had two prototype electron microscopes requiring much attention. -- Werner Arber
Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen. -- Dan Shechtman
In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility. -- James Gleick
An electron is real; a probability is not. -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
You will get your difficulties with the point electron. -- Paul Ehrenfest
The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody! -- Joseph John Thomson
The electron is first of all your concept of the electron. -- Nhat Hanh
I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star. -- David Sarnoff
The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real. -- Richard P. Feynman
We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement. -- Dean Radin
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states. -- John Desmond Bernal
This is our world now The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. -- Loyd Blankenship
The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of SchrÃ¶dinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle. -- Arthur Eddington
...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
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
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
Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down. -- Bryan Appleyard
Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy. -- Robert A. Heinlein
An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you can your dollars. The dollars will drive generation choices. -- Ralph Cavanagh
Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the other direction. This prevents harmful electron buildup in the wires. -- Dave Barry
There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list. -- Arthur Eddington
An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate. -- Arthur Eddington

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