Quotes About Protons

#1. 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 Feynman

#2. 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

#3. This book is dedicated to all the protons in the universe who continue to remain positive in spite of the negativity whizzing around them

RamG Vallath

#4. Time is the passage of change. When electrons cease revolving around protons time does not exist. In the spirit world, there are no atoms and time, as we know it, is incongruous.

Paul C. Steffy

#5. When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion.

David Christian

#6. Quark-antiquark collisions cannot be realized directly since free quarks are not available. The closest substitute is to use collisions between protons and antiprotons.

Carlo Rubbia

#7. 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

#8. Consciousness resides in the gap between electrons, protons, and neutrons.

Debasish Mridha

#9. In England and the United States, where physicists have at their disposal equipment of very high voltages, several new elements were prepared using protons and deuterons as projectiles.

Frederic Joliot-Curie

#10. In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to unlocking the dynamics of the strong force that binds together the clump of protons and neutrons at the center of the atom.

David Gross

#11. Essentially all life uses redox chemistry to generate a gradient of protons across a membrane. Why on earth do we do that?

Nick Lane

#12. hadrons" - a collective term used by physicists for protons, neutrons and other particles governed by the strong nuclear force.

Bill Bryson

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Different entities are composed of different densities of molecules but ultimately every pixel is made up of electrons, protons, and neutrons performing a delicate dance. Every pixel, including every iota of you and me, and every pixel of space seemingly

Jill Bolte Taylor

#16. 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

#17. The electromagnetic attraction between negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons in the nucleus causes the electrons to orbit the nucleus of the atom, just as gravitational attraction causes the earth to orbit the sun.

Stephen Hawking

#18. Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.

Martin Rees

#19. When you do the math and examine how much energy is produced per atomic union, you find that fusing anything to iron's twenty-six protons costs energy. That means post-ferric fusion* does an energy-hungry star no good. Iron is the final peal of a star's natural life.

Sam Kean

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

John Searle

#21. We will grow old, and older,
One of us will die, and then the other.
The earth itself will be impaled
by sunspokes. It doesn't matter.
We have been imprinted on the protons
of energy herself,

Robin Morgan

#22. 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

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

Frank Zappa

#24. The protons are dead, nothing will ever be the same

Jerry Spinelli

#25. I believe that there are 15,747,724,136,275,02,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#26. The energy in the universe is not in the planets, or in the protons or neutrons, but in the relationship between them.

Richard Rohr

#27. Duct tape is man's answer to electrons and protons. It's how we keep matter together.

Penny Reid

#28. Up to about thirty years ago, it was thought that protons and neutrons were "elementary" particles, but experiments in which protons were collided with other protons or electrons at high speeds indicated that they were in fact made up of smaller particles.

Stephen Hawking

#29. Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Bill Bryson

#30. And the knowledge that humanity was not alone in the universe would be as relevant to most as the knowledge that protons were built of quarks.

Alastair Reynolds

#31. I'm not so sure," Dad said. "Every damn thing in the universe can be broken down into smaller things, even atom, even protons, so theoretically speaking, I guess you had a winning case. A collection of things should be considered one thing. Unfortunately, theory don't always carry the day.

Jeannette Walls

#32. 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