23 Electron Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Myth Single Wave Wavelength Must Small Longer Conceived Predicted Measured Electricity Electron Associated

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

Old Beta Steel Pounds Wire Particle Accelerator Got Years Translator Miles Electron Garage Million Copper

If you bang two electrons together with enough energy, you produce protons. If there are no independent laws, then all the properties of protons must somehow be 'known' by the electrons. By extension, every elementary particle must carry around enough information to produce the entire universe. I find that difficult to believe. Alan Guth

You Together Energy Believe Difficult Every Universe Enough Independent Carry Must Find Entire Somehow Laws Properties Particle Known Around Bang Information Produce Then Electron Elementary Extension Two

You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier. Bill Callahan

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space. Clifford D. Simak

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. David Lehman

We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms. Gilbert Newton Lewis

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

Own Active Complexes My Own Only Between Became Metal Came Chicago Transfer After Interest Aspects Electron Basic University

We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays. Irene Joliot-Curie

Positive Negative Characterized Possible Emission Rays Alpha Create Electron Shown

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

Experience Strikes Circumstances Detached Some Atom Through Ray Learnt Surface Electrical Electron Even Second Third

Electrons are the carriers for electricity, but they are also carriers for thermal energy. This means thermal conductivity is increased when the carrier density is increased. Mildred Dresselhaus

Energy Increased Carrier Also Density Means Electricity Electron Thermal

If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell. Sam Kean

You Achieve Atoms Chemistry Satisfied Sum Borrow Steal Had Feel Shed Shell Shells Up Different Different Elements Sentence Might Full Electron Elements Need Numbers

Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds. Sam Kean

Diamond Way Neighbor Table Perfect Periodic Impression Matrix Same Fewer Quite Form Which Means Electron Carbon Four Bonds

Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next. Sam Kean

Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light. Sam Kean

Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic physics of atoms and electrons would have to be altered in order for this to be true. If we tried, the fundamental absurdity of the task would quickly become evident. Sean M. Carroll

Life Work Death Hard Work Physics Be True Atoms Become Sit Down Evident Would Tried Tries True Absurdity Nobody Altered Advocate How Quickly Task Order After Explaining Hard Electron Even Fundamental Among Basic

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

Art Myself You People Kind See Spinning Some Atom Somehow Supply Bouncing Never-Ending Like Became Around Always Go Fitting Just Places Electron Things Imagined

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

Physics November Took Recommendation Animated Had Attention Geneva Prototype Laboratory Experimental Paul Much Much Attention Requiring Electron Professor Two University

What the ultrafast laser does is that because it doesn’t have to just cut from the surface, it’s only at the intense focal point that it does this damage where the electrons come off the atoms, you could actually put your laser and scan it over your cornea and it would cut underneath that. Donna Strickland

You Atoms Focal Focal Point Scan Would Only Point Could Put Over Come Underneath Because Does Surface Off Intense Just Where Cut Your Electron Actually Laser Damage

My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron. Xavier Dolan

Looking Whatever Energy Monstrous Everywhere Run Some Part Bouncing Opening Like House She Around Got Aunt Heard Julie Up Manager Children Production Show Electron

I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away. Douglas Coupland

Time Day You Old First Gone Back One Day Wires Like Wither Documents Said Got Go Get Going Just Which Fancy Little Meanwhile Laptops Electron Now Away Starting Need Cords

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