Carl David Anderson quotes
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“The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence — and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.”
-- Carl David AndersonSource : "Carl Anderson. Some notes about his life and work at Caltech. The first of a series of biographical sketches of Caltech faculty members". Engineering and Science, Volume 15:1, October 1951.
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“The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.”
-- Carl David AndersonSource : "Interviewed By Harriett Lyle". Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California, 1979.
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“Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.”
-- Carl David AndersonSource : Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”
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“Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.”
-- Carl David AndersonSource : Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”
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“Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.”
-- Carl David Anderson
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.”
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“I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.”
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“George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.”
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