35 Particle Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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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

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

Mathematics Science Creativity Physics Humanities Other Beneficiaries Cosmology More Particle Essential Just Arts Acknowledged Fields Widely

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

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I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge evolution in the number of people who have to collaborate because of the gigantic size of the instruments used, but also because of the enormous task that is data analysis. Peter Higgs

People Physics Speak Become Enormous Analysis Side Collaborate Evolution Has-Been Gigantic Data Only Particle Also Obvious Instruments Because Been Huge Task Size Experimental Used Who Number

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

Moon Made Single Earth Sun Since Particle Always Represent Childhood Human Human Beings Dots Billions Works Beings Among

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards. A. E. Waite

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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

I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave. Alan Arkin

Wave Out He Particle Wrote Up Ended Epitaph Started

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

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In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when you are committed to spending a hundred thousand or a million dollars, you can't fix it later. You need to have a system of checks and balances internally. In particle physics, that's just part of the structure. Barry Barish

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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton. Carlo Rubbia

Hundreds States Generally Observation Unstable New Particle Particles Led Just Which Many Appear Fundamental

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

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

You World Everything String Enter Out Fuzzy Direction Step New Particle Making Spreading Familiar New World Where Used Things

Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities that crop up in particle theory and cosmology. The idea of point particles is convenient but leads to profound, puzzling troubles. Gregory Benford

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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

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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

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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

Life Future Events Past Real Life Our Minds Distinguish Physicists Through Open Particle Like Freeze Within Contents Occur Real Up May Cannot Explore Second

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

Will Other Laws Particle Known Learned Subject Same Planet

Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway. I think I might find the universal principles of String Theory most elegant - if I only knew what they were. Leonard Susskind

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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

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I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle. Lisa Randall

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