#particle

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation. ↗

— Walther Bothe

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CURIOSITY DEMANDS THAT WE ASK QUESTIONS, THAT WE TRY TO PUT THINGS TOGETHER AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS MULTITUDE OF ASPECTS AS PERHAPS RESULTING FROM THE ACTION OF A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF ELEMENTAL THINGS AND FORCES ACTING IN AN INFINITE VARIETY OF COMBINATIONS ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone. ↗

— Lara Santoro

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I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved. ↗

— Patrick White

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. ↗

— Enrico Fermi

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The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays. ↗

— John Hersey

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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

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Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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

— Arthur E. Waite

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