Quotes About Photons

#1. Don't trees swallow the fire of the sun? When wood burns, is it not surrendering all those photons of energy that the tree's leaves once snatched from sunlight and eventually stored within woody fiber?

Mark Warren

#2. The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

Brian Greene

#3. 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

#4. Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.

Woody Allen

#6. Regardless of how bitter or uncomfortable or ill-fitting an answer may be, irrespective of its hazard or grotesqueness, the Impartial Observer's only duty is to open the shutter and let the photons pour in: uncensored.

John Zande

#7. Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Roger Penrose

#8. There is one simplification at least. Electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in exactly in the same way ...

Richard P. Feynman

#9. diagonally polarized photons are in a quantum quandary when confronted by a vertical Polaroid filter.

Simon Singh

#10. Photons have neither morals nor visas.

David J. Farber

#11. The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

Terence McKenna

#12. A vast and fiery nuclear furnace launched photons through the reaches of space; they hurtled trillions of kilometers at breakneck speed, then filtered gently into the bedroom as shafts of dawn sunlight.

Anonymous

#13. since the moment those photons left our own sun, I had been born, raised, educated, inducted into the Commonwealth Defense Corps, and trained to fly a drop ship, and I had still beaten the light to Fomalhaut by a few days.

Marko Kloos

#14. I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world.

Kay Kenyon

#15. These same oxygen atoms, normally found in pairs (O2), also combined in threes to form ozone (O3) in the upper atmosphere, which serves as a shield that protects Earth's surface from most of the Sun's molecule-hostile ultraviolet photons.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#16. The energy of subatomic particles transmits photons which interconnect in a wave like motion to similar particles. In other words, the immortal soul conveys energy which links in a wave like motion to related souls; thus Soul Mates.

Serena Jade

#17. Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

Max Planck

#18. There was a hole inside her, and it twisted.

Lilith Saintcrow

#19. Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

Homer

#20. What was the use trying to make safe and sure our little life? Sooner or later the great wave must come and sweep all away.

Erich Maria Remarque

#21. If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.

Michael Ealy

#22. Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

Gordon Brown

#23. If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes.

Neal Boortz

#24. Choose the words you say to yourself wisely; they are creating your reality.

Sean Stephenson

#25. Josh is ... Josh

Carolyn Mackler

#26. When there's a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there's public input, the people usually win.

Morgan Carroll