D. H. Lawrence Quotes

We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.

Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.

I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

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'.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

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.

The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .

Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.

Now I know what the atom looks like.

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.

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out.

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.