Proton Quotes:

The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Neutrons, Moron, Proton, Electrons

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

- John Searle

source: John Searle (2010). “Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization”, p.12, Oxford University Press

topic: President, Election, Proton

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

- Bill Bryson

source: Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Giving, Personality, Identity, Electrons, Proton

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep-great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

- Edward Mills Purcell

source: "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, Decemebr 11, 1952.

topic: Eye, Winter, Discovery, New Eyes, Proton

You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

- Richard P. Feynman

source: Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.113, Princeton University Press

topic: Two, Numbers, Three, Lithium, Proton

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

- Martin Gardner

topic: Real, Reality, Mathematics, Mathematics By Mathematicians, Proton

...realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind; that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making... All wealth depends upon a clear understanding of the fact that mind- thought - is the only creator. The great business of life is thinking. Control your thoughts and you control circumstance.

- Robert Collier

topic: Thinking, Understanding, Mind, Mind Thoughts, Proton

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

- John Henry Carver

topic: Two, Competition, Giants, Resonance, Proton

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

- Martin Rees

topic: World, Culture, Share, Proton

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

- Edmund Burke

source: "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.

topic: Feelings, Delight, Looks, Proton

The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories.

- Brian Morton

source: Brian Morton (1999). “Starting Out in the Evening”, Berkley Publishing Group

topic: Together, Orbit, Would Be, Proton, Blankness

There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of those chains of molecules isn't there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, that if any one of them from Plank's minimum to the mass of a proton, if one of them is the tiniest bit off, there would be no life or possibility of it in the universe.

- Dean Koontz

source: "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

topic: Thinking, Cells, Twenties, Proton

If the strong nuclear force were slightly weaker, multi-proton nuclei would not hold together. Hydrogen would be the only element in the universe.

- Hugh Ross

source: Hugh Ross (1989). “The Fingerprint of God: Recent Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Unmistakable Identity of the Creat”, p.82, BookBaby

topic: Strong, Together, Would Be, Proton

The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had turned into the energy of the flash (E-mc2). Totally. Nothing left behind. No ash. No smoke. No smell. Nada. One moment it's there, the next moment - pffft - gone. What would it mean? Only this: Nothing lasts. Nothing. Because everything that exists is made of protons.

- Jerry Spinelli

topic: Mean, Smell, Energy, Proton

Love is the glue that holds the world together.

- Starhawk

topic: Love Is, Together, Glue, Proton

The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.

- Starhawk

topic: Falling In Love, Stars, Love Is, Attractiveness, Emanate

I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231, 425, 076, 185, 631, 031, 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.

- Arthur Eddington

topic: Believe, Numbers, Mathematics, Electrons, Proton

Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or trying to get full, to balance with the number of protons-to balance the number of positive and negative charges. An atom is like a human heart, you see.

- Kim Stanley Robinson

topic: Heart, Science, Numbers, Proton, Neutrons

Scientists have just built the world's biggest supercollider, and they're doing experiments to see what makes up protons. I hope that if the experiment's successful, the whole of our reality will dissolve, and a big sign will up come that says: Level Two.

- Frankie Boyle

topic: Successful, Reality, Two, Proton

The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron .... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.

- Stephen Hawking

source: Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

topic: Law, Numbers, Fundamentals, Electrons, Proton

Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

- John Polkinghorne

topic: Believe, Reality, World, Electrons, Proton

It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'

- Robert Winston

topic: Thinking, Laughing, People, Philistines, Proton

There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei. They just go on forever. They're plasma, they're fluid ... they're alive.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Reality, Other Worlds, Plasma, Proton

Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments]. Much important information about the target atoms or nuclei or their assemblage has been obtained in this way. In witness of this importance one can point to the unusual concentration of scattering enthusiasts among earlier Nobel Laureate physicists. One could say that physicists just love to perform or interpret scattering experiments.

- Clifford Shull

source: Clifford G. Shull's Speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1994.

topic: Science, Light, Important, Electrons, Proton

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

- Martin Rees

topic: Ignorance, Ignorant, Citizens, Proton

In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period.'

- Ivar Giaever

topic: Mean, Average, Years, Changes Over Time, Whole Year

I like the responsive, quick feeling I get out of the Proton, and I am excited to have this board as my model.

- Dane Reynolds

topic: Feelings, Boards, Excited, Proton

Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.

- Robert Andrews Millikan

topic: Acceptance, Discovery, Two, Material World, Proton