Top 250 Particle Quotes & Sayings

No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into any details, predicts that for every known particle in the world, there should be a partner particle, the so-called supersymmetric partner.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

The field is the sole influence of the particle.

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.

We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe.

The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

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.

I had been interested in particle physics, which deals with the fundamental constituents of matter.

That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.

I just refuse to worry or get upset or be fearful. It doesn't do one particle of good.

The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.

Everything starts with a dream, a particle of our imagination that teases us of what the future could be like, as long as we fight for it.

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn't have that, and he said 'okay, call it the God particle', and the editor accepted it. I don't think he should've have done, because it's so misleading.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.

By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

We really try to have only one new particle per paper.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes - that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens - that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their course. The creeping of an aphid over the rosebush is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence - the fall of...leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.

Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one, and in relation to what can it move? There is nothing besides it. So this infinite Unit is unchangeable, immovable, absolute, and this is the Real Man.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

Which came first - the observer or the particle?

Dark matter is particularly intriguing because it's some kind of particle - that's for sure.

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

We encompass all of existence, yet a particle of our awareness is focused in this world, in the moment.

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

God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

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

As the size of cyclotrons increases and faster particles are produced, a difficulty arises due to the relativistic increase of mass of the particle.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment “Now.” As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past.

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.

I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.

Great marriages are like the Higgs Boson particle, its existence has been theorized, but no one has ever seen one.

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

Soul, a particle of God, is blessed with the gift of creative imagination, which finds a solution for every problem.

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

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

The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that had never been observed before, and described the properties it should have. Later experiments proved that this particle really exists and has those properties.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.