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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. -- Leon M. Lederman
Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future. -- James Gleick
I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave. -- Alan Arkin
I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found. -- Stephen Hawking
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity. -- Ariel Durant
There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure. -- Gina McCarthy
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions. -- Yayoi Kusama
The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed. -- Walther Bothe
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
In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation. -- Walther Bothe
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. -- Murray Gell-Mann
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities. -- Lisa Randall
The ability to work together has to be in the blood of particle physicists. They learn very early on that it is impossible to advance on one's own and that constant exchange is necessary. -- Rolf-Dieter Heuer
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out. -- Edward Witten
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. -- Alberto Giacometti
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
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
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well. -- Mary Roach
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
I do theoretical particle physics. We're trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is you have to look at really small distances. And to get to small distances, you need high energies. -- Lisa Randall
The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into any details, predicts that for every known particle in the world, there should be a partner particle, the so-called supersymmetric partner. -- Brian Greene
A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a choice that you can embody in electrical circuits, and it is thanks to that that we have all this ubiquitous computing. -- James Gleick
In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one shouldn't pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory. -- Peter Higgs
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. -- Jane Porter
My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of, then we don't seem to have any understanding of the laws of particle physics. I'd be very happy just to understand the last singularity and leave the other ones to future generations. -- Neil Turok
Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a much finer scale than any known subatomic particle. The structure could be of an exotic kind: extra dimensions, over and above the three that we are used to (up and down, backward and forward, left and right). -- Martin Rees
O amazement of things-even the least particle! -- Walt Whitman
The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . . -- Alexander Hamilton
The field is the sole influence of the particle. -- Albert Einstein
Which came first ? the observer or the particle? -- Vanna Bonta
Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty. -- Ian Maclaren
I do not keep up with the details of particle physics. -- Murray Gell-Mann
We really try to have only one new particle per paper. -- Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. -- Henry David Thoreau
There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want. -- Noel Coward
No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood -- Brigham Young
There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith. -- Heber J. Grant
Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. -- Robin Ince
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it -- Gustave Flaubert
Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected. -- Wolfgang Pauli
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. -- Mark Twain
A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right -- Neil Peart
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion. -- Henry Ward Beecher
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards. -- A. E. Waite
The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave. -- Leonard Cohen
We encompass all of existence, yet a particle of our awareness is focused in this world, in the moment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. -- Herman Melville
Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray. -- Philip Sidney
The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state. -- Stuart Wilde
Soul, a particle of God, is blessed with the gift of creative imagination, which finds a solution for every problem. -- Harold Klemp
Great marriages are like the Higgs Boson particle, its existence has been theorized, but no one has ever seen one. -- Dov Davidoff
Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one. -- Swami Vivekananda
God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. -- Henry David Thoreau
God is not worn out running the galaxy. He's not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time. -- John Piper
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. -- Leo Tolstoy
How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful. -- John Muir
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. -- William Blake
Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side... -- Robert Browning
The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other. -- James Smithson
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes -- Charles Spurgeon
For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson. -- Scott Adams
I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies. -- Leon M. Lederman
An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things. -- Henry Stapp
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean -- Letitia Landon
When you trace a particle back to its origins, you find that it's nothing but pure energy. All of us come from this energy field. -- Wayne Dyer
If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling. -- Wayne Dyer
I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me. -- Swami Vivekananda
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. -- Vanna Bonta
I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary. -- Lydia M. Child
Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances. -- Isaac Newton
[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Steven Weinberg
An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation. -- Deepak Chopra
Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction. -- Fritjof Capra
Everything starts with a dream, a particle of our imagination that teases us of what the future could be like, as long as we fight for it... -- Gurbaksh Chahal
There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they were interested in reverse gravity fields. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age. -- Brian Greene
every particle being connected with every other; you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe. It makes living a funny joke with nobody around to laugh. -- Philip K. Dick
I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators. -- Lisa Randall
There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they were interested in reverse gravity fields. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him? -- Spencer W. Kimball
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. -- Elihu Burritt
The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives. -- John Armstrong
Everyone and everything that shows up in the world of form in this universe originates not from a particle, as quantum physics teaches us, but from an energy field. -- Wayne Dyer
Know, O man you are a particle of the supreme feminine being sucked to an obscure vacuum - of a bliss but that we can only name - universe! -- Preeth Nambiar
You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma. -- Augusten Burroughs
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society. -- Alain Aspect
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string. -- Edward Witten
While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time. -- James Cronin
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." -- Murray Gell Mann
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
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. -- Richard Dawkins
Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform. -- Steven Johnson
Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University. -- Carlo Rubbia
The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment "Now." As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past. -- William Lawrence Bragg
The important concept of the solar wind is that Space is not empty. It is an energy and particle filled environment that interacts with whatever is in it! Astronomers call this 'Dark Energy'. -- Steven Magee
I am a particle physicist, which is the nearest branch to nuclear physics. So in that sense I was the sort of right connection with the subject of nuclear energy and so on. -- Abdus Salam
Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity. -- Sir Thomas Blount, 1st Baronet
It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces. -- Edward Witten
A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless? -- Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it. -- Adam Riess
The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work. -- Lisa Randall
Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it. -- Dwight Schultz
Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest. -- Emily Carr
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground. -- Samuel Johnson
Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to. -- Edward Witten
I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen. -- Denis Kearney
The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. -- Leonard Susskind

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