Electrons Quotes - Page 3

• A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Silly, Moving

  Michael Crichton (1997). "El mundo perdido", Knopf

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• The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

  James Randi

  Men, Data, Religion

  "Another New Fan". Swift, archive.randi.org. September 02, 2005.

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• Las matemáticas no sólo son reales, sino que son la única realidad. Es que todo el universo está hecho de materia, obviamente. Y la materia está hecha de partículas. Está hecha de electrones, neutrones y protones. Así que todo el universo está hecho de partículas. Ahora, ¿de qué están hechas las partículas? No están hechas de nada. Lo único que se puede decir sobre la realidad de un electrón es citar sus propiedades matemáticas. Así que hay un sentido en el que la materia se ha disuelto completamente y lo que queda es sólo una estructura matemática.

  Martin Gardner

  Real, Matemáticas, Justicia

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• I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

  Jim Benton

  Labs, Imagine, Scientist

  Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.7, Scholastic

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• What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your eyes, jostling in your brain like a bunch of overeager school children, about to be released on break. Will you let yourself be deluded? Will you let yourself be decieved? -"On Beauty and Falsehood," The New Philosophy, by Ellen Dorpshire

  Lauren Oliver

  Children, Philosophy, Eye

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.267, Hachette UK

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• As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the movement of light and electrons through matter, the intricate molecular order which is the biological basis of life, must be met by the creation of a moral and political order which will accommodate these forces or we shall be destroyed. It will try our deepest resources of reason and compassion.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Compassion, Light

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• I think we’re part of a greater wisdom that we will ever understand; a higher order, call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all. It just is.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Order, Judging

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• La única manera de ver a los hombres es como si fueran electrones. Tienen todas estas cargas que sobresalen, y siempre están buscando un agujero donde puedan poner esas cargas.

  Candace Bushnell

  Hombres, Apariencia, Manera

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• ¿Puede un físico visualizar un electrón? El electrón es materialmente inconcebible y, sin embargo, se conoce tan perfectamente a través de sus efectos que lo utilizamos para iluminar nuestras ciudades, guiar nuestras líneas aéreas por los cielos nocturnos y realizar las mediciones más precisas. ¿Qué extraño razonamiento hace que algunos físicos acepten como reales a los inconcebibles electrones mientras se niegan a aceptar la realidad de un Diseñador basándose en que no pueden concebirlo?

  Wernher von Braun

  God, Real, Airplane

  Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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• The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.

  Alan Turing

  Dragons, Principles, Benefits

  Epigram to Robin Gandy in 1954. "Alan Turing: The Enigma". Book by Andrew Hodges, p. 513, 1992.

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• La ciencia histórica no es peor, más restringida o menos capaz de alcanzar conclusiones firmes porque el experimento, la predicción y la subsunción bajo leyes invariables de la naturaleza no representen sus métodos habituales de trabajo. Las ciencias de la historia utilizan un modo de explicación diferente, arraigado en la riqueza comparativa y observacional de nuestros datos. No podemos ver directamente un acontecimiento del pasado, pero la ciencia suele basarse en la inferencia, no en la observación sin ambages (tampoco se ven los electrones, la gravedad o los agujeros negros).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Pasado, Derecho, Datos

  "La vida maravillosa: El esquisto de Burgess y la naturaleza de la historia". Libro de Stephen Jay Gould, p. 279, 1989.

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• Incluso un vórtice es un vórtice en algo. No se puede tener un remolino sin agua; y no se puede tener un vórtice sin gas, o moléculas o átomos o iones o electrones o algo, no nada.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Ions, Water, Molecules

  "Back to Methuselah". Book by George Bernard Shaw, Acis, in Pt. V, 1921.

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• After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another electrons; and we are always loth to don rational clothing; some fixed belief we must have manufactured for us: we are high or low church, of this or that degree of nonconformity, according to the school in which we are brought up-but the agnostic is always rare of us and of late years the critic has been taboo.

  Henry Edward Armstrong

  Fashion, School, Science

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• When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do some kind of dance, the net result of which is the same as if the photon hit only on the surface.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Glasses, Kind, Results

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.17, Princeton University Press

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• Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.

  Alan Lightman

  Sadness, Law, Brain

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.20, Vintage

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• It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go on to 4 by 4 matrices, and the problem is then easily soluable. In retrospect, it seems strange that one can be so much held up over such an elementary point. The resulting wave equation for the electron turned out to be very successful. It led to correct values for the spin and the magnetic moment. This was quite unexpected. The work all followed from a study of pretty mathematics, without any thought being given to these physical properties of the electron.

  Paul Dirac

  Successful, Discovery, Goes On

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• Me parece que existe un plan que se extiende desde el electrón hasta el borde del universo, y lo que este plan pueda ser o cómo se produjo está más allá de mi débil intelecto. Pero si buscamos algo en lo que basar nuestra fe -y, de hecho, nuestra esperanza-, el plan bien podría serlo. Creo que hemos pensado demasiado en pequeño y hemos tenido demasiado miedo.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Thinking, Unity, May

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Choice of Gods”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and nucleophilic (nucleus-seeking) are suggested... and the organic molecule, in the activation necessary for reaction, is therefore required to develop at the seat of attack either a high or low electron density as the case may be.

  Christopher Kelk Ingold

  Science, Acting, Nomenclature

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• My wife and I have long discussions about [George] Carlin, and we refuse to accept that he died an atheist. It's just, confounding. When I talked to Kelly [George Carlin's daughter] about it, she said that George Carlin once took her at about 12 years old and said, "I've figured it out." And he says it in one of his specials sort of - he goes, "We're all energy and we're all connected. That goldfish you have, you, me, that boot laying in the street, we're all pieces of light to a giant electron.

  Jay Mohr

  Daughter, Atheist, Light

  Fuente: underthegunreview.net

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• New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Sight, Dust, Telescopes

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Los átomos tienen un núcleo formado por protones y neutrones unidos entre sí. Alrededor de este núcleo giran capas de electrones, y cada capa está llena o tratando de llenarse, para equilibrarse con el número de protones, para equilibrar el número de cargas positivas y negativas. Un átomo es como un corazón humano.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Corazón, Ciencia, Números

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• Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Taste, Galaxy

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don't cheat. People do.

  Martin Gardner

  People, Cheat, Said

  Martin Gardner (1999). “The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener”, p.64, Macmillan

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• No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum mechanics. Of course, when you solve one difficulty, other new difficulties arise. You then try to sove them. You can never solve all difficulties at once.

  Paul Dirac

  Trying, Mechanic, Quantum

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• Whether looked at from outside or inside, bodies dissolve, matter vanishes, spirit remains - once we bother to go into the matter. "Spirit is the living body seen from within, and the body is the outer manifestation of the living spirit." Extend this statement by Carl Jung to all bodies from electrons to galaxies, and you have the ultimate physics

  Douglas Harding

  Body, Matter, Spirit

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