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Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought. -- Roy H. Williams
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We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world. -- William H. Gass
Through Life Particles, the thoughts in your mind are the seeds of your present and future experiences that will blossom when given enough energy through action with your focused attention. -- Ilchi Lee; Seung Heun Lee
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
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the 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. -- Erwin Schrodinger
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures? -- Martin Gardner
When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time. -- Alan Guth
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
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
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical tract, it evinces a fiercely nihilistic, anti-humanistic vision built upon gross generalizations and ridiculously phony logic. It is a deeply repugnant read. -- Michiko Kakutani
Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the PhÃ¦nomena of Nature? -- Isaac Newton
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. -- Albert Einstein
Soul, a particle of God, is blessed with the gift of creative imagination, which finds a solution for every problem. -- Harold Klemp
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there. -- Richard Gere
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
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
The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. -- C. F. Powell
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. -- Neil Gaiman
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. -- Eric Allin Cornell
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
Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. -- Carl David Anderson
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
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
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. -- Leo Tolstoy
You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure. -- Orison Swett Marden
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
Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one. -- Terry Pratchett
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. -- Albert Einstein
I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe. -- Stephen Hawking
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. -- John Tyndall
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains. -- Stephen Hawking
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles. -- Edward Witten
Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see. -- Edward Witten
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
Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. -- Carl David Anderson
When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions. -- Edward Witten
The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string. -- Brian Greene
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
Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen. -- Richard P. Feynman
I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's probably not even enough, but it's a way forward to get gravity involved. If you have supersymmetry, then there are more of these particles. That would be my favourite outcome. -- Peter Higgs
In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos. -- Brian Greene
I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though? -- Florence Welch
Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid. -- Alfred Hershey
Think how hard physics would be if particles could think -- Murray Gell-Mann
If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles. -- John Horton Conway
All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers. -- Rumi
Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction. -- Lee Smolin
Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task. -- Richard P. Feynman
Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love. -- Rumi
Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity. -- Gary Zukav
Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them. -- Steven Weinberg
Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? -- Rumi
Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever. -- Lady Gaga
Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao. -- Laozi
Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist. -- Enrico Fermi
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems . -- Niels Bohr
When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known. -- Luis Walter Alvarez
The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles. -- Swami Vivekananda
Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
We all need something to believe in. Without those beliefs we're just floating particles moving through the space time continuum. -- Solange nicole
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance. -- Lucretius
They are the chosen ones who have surrendered ... Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun! -- Rumi
All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear. -- Brian Greene
Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it. -- Swami Vivekananda
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance. -- Joseph Conrad
They have a sign at the beach, "no glass bottles". I think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers. -- Emo Philips
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed. -- J. G. Holland
Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards. -- Piet Hein
The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop -- Ben Aaronovitch
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Subatomic particles exist in all possible states until they are observed - at which point something definite emerges from the soup of possibilities. -- Robert Moss
Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information. -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected. -- Jim Jarmusch
The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright. -- William Blake
Reality, in its essence, consists not of particles interacting pointlessly in anindependent physical plane, but rather of values, psychological elements ofmind, made real. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
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
We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries. -- Werner Heisenberg
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way. -- Christopher Morley
[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
First, creating moving-image particles using MoCap technology requires a very complex and long production pipeline. Moreover, rendering these particles takes a lengthy amount of time. -- Martine Epoque
My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators. -- Simon van der Meer
All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up 5 percent of our universe. -- Sean M. Carroll
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
Laboratory experiments, field observations and atmospheric modeling calculations have now established that chemical reactions occurring on PSC particles play a central role in polar ozone depletion. -- Mario J. Molina
I go and film 50 people in Israel, 50 people in Russia, and 50 people in Romania, in Paris, because I really like to get some particles of something real. -- Michal Rovner
The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food. -- Bob Blumer
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations. -- Timothy Leary
What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced. -- Antony Garrett Lisi
Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles. -- Richard P. Feynman
The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy. -- Rex Stout
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior. -- Werner Heisenberg
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned? -- Alan Moore
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned~? -- Alan Moore
The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. -- C. F. Powell
The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance. -- Benjamin Franklin
Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce. -- Philip Johnson
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters. -- Will Self
We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them -- Stephen Hawking
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. -- Dorothy Bryant
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Ã?ons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles! -- Thomas Carlyle
When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch! -- Felix Alba Juez
If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds. -- Orson Pratt
Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA. -- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'. -- Fritjof Capra
We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world there is unity and commerce. -- David Malouf
For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe. -- Albert Einstein
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Quantum physics is teaching us that particles themselves don't create particles. It's what Jesus said 2,000 years ago, that it's the Spirit that gives life and that you don't get particles from more particles. -- Wayne Dyer
The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts. -- Loren Eiseley
There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions, .... -- Roger Penrose
Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart. -- Marcel Proust
But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight. -- Wang Anyi
I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me. -- Jeff Mangum
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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