Top 27 Photon Quotes
#1. The receiver has to expend energy to measure the electromagnetic waves in the vacuum disturbed by the long-gone photon.
Anonymous
#2. [Author's Note: Barbara Hand Clow gives a much more detailed description and story about the photon band and the cosmological changes in dimensional relationships we are undergoing in her latest book, The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light.]
Amorah Quan Yin
#3. What the photon is it?" "Oh, just some five-million-year-old tape that's being broadcast at us." "A what? A recording?
Douglas Adams
#4. 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
#5. Please note, you future dead persons, whenever you shut off a fluorescent bulb or a cathode ray tube and see a residual photon-green glow, that glow is trapped human ectoplasm. Ghosts are forever being snared in lightbulbs.
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. The studies concluded that the graviton must be massless and chargeless, and must have the quantum mechanical property known as spin-2. (Very roughly, the graviton should spin like a top, twice as fast as the spin of a photon.)
Brian Greene
#9. Orolo said, What if these two universes - each as big and as old and as complicated as ours - were entirely separate, except for a single photon that managed to travel somehow between them. Would that be enough to wrench A's time and B's time into perfect lockstep for all eternity?
Neal Stephenson
#10. The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.
Michael Behe
#11. Thus light is something like raindrops-each little lump of light is called a photon-and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same size.
Richard Feynman
#12. If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.
Richard P. Feynman
#13. I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process of radiation, the name photon.
Gilbert N. Lewis
#14. If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.
Philip Plait
#15. There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, lookong past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world
Terry Pratchett
#16. Zoom Zoom said Mr Photon oblivious to the mere mortal problems of math
Steve Merrick
#18. Adding travel time lost during the pit stop between photon absorption and re-emission, the total trip lasts about a million years. If a photon had a clear path from the Sun's center to its surface, its journey would instead last all of 2.3 seconds.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#19. Passing that fiery tree-if only she could; Be making love, Be making poetry, Be exploding, be speeding through the universe; Like a photon, like a shower; Of yellow blazes...
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#20. Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions of pulses in your brain by a single photon of light, the combined output would be blinding.
David Eagleman
#21. What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.
Carl Andre
#22. Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size, even if you have flaws in the material, it doesn't affect the strength.
Asa Baber
#25. I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#27. The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted.
Thomm Quackenbush
