Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.

Popular Topics
Afternoon, Thank You, Talent, Memorable, Acknowledge, Math, Light, Fitness, Live, Creative, Poet, Flower, Wonderful, Gold, Music, Soccer, Passive, Education, Confidence, Knowledge, Wonder, Integrity, Drama, Technical, Name, Relationships, Jesus, Butterfly, Movie Love, Dream, World, House, Bear, I Like You, Like, Quite, Angry, Scholar, Humble, Kind, Life Is Good, Leadership, Curiosity, Inspiration, Intelligent, Subject, Positive, Snows, Inspired, Stories
Arthur Eddington

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

Atoms, Bottle, Bottles, Electron, Genie, Science
Same Author Quotes

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one. ' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and. '

Completed, Know, Make, Study, Thinking, Two

But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.

Atoms, Electron, Haze, Insist, Science, Usual

A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years.

Dream, Maintain, Mean, Output, Stars, Vast

If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.

Army, Book, Books, British, Returning, Writing

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

Knowledge, Science, Theory, Know, Amounts
Similar Quotes