Quotes About Quarks

#1. The leptons most familiar to the non-physicist are the electron and perhaps the neutrino; and the most familiar quarks are . . . well, there are no familiar quarks.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Richard P. Feynman

#3. 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

#4. There's something called From 'Alchemy to Quarks,' which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#5. The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.

Edward Abbey

#6. Fears have been raised that in their enthusiasm scientists might inadvertently create a black hole or even something called "strange quarks," which could, theoretically, interact with other subatomic particles and propagate uncontrollably. If you are reading this, that hasn't happened. Finding

Bill Bryson

#7. His colleague Richard Feynman wanted to call these new basic particles partons16, as in Dolly, but was over-ruled. Instead they became known as quarks.

Bill Bryson

#8. Shortly before, during, and after the strong and electroweak forces parted company, the universe was a seething soup of quarks, leptons, and their antimatter siblings, along with bosons, the particles that enable their interactions.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs, and black holes.

Tom Stoppard

#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. Sure relationships can be fun at first, but then you get to know each others quirks, and those quirks become quarks, and those quarks combine and become hadrons and scientists love to combine hadrons in giant hadron colliders and they create black holes!

Craig Benzine

#12. I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Geoffrey West

#13. Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy.

Virginia Petrucci

#14. Love was actually more like calculus or physics. What was the half-life of love? Did it have cosigns and slopes, or quarks that morphed from wave to particle faster than you could say, please don't leave?

Trebor Healey

#15. The origin of the name is an enigmatic quotation from James Joyce: "Three quarks for Muster Mark!

Stephen Hawking

#16. 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

#17. A proton or neutron is made up of three quarks, one of each color. A proton contains two up quarks and one down quark; a neutron contains two down and one up.

Stephen Hawking

#18. Funny . . . humanity's great at the tiny patterns. We can find quarks in an atom and Jesus's face in a tortilla. But that big picture is so elusive, so overwhelming, people refuse to believe something as obvious as their life in Des Moines affects lives in Delhi.

P.J. Manney

#19. Three quarks for Muster Mark!

James Joyce

#20. Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

Brian Greene

#21. In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that?

Lisa Randall

#22. We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

John D. Barrow

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

Terence McKenna

#24. Nothing
would be
easier without
you,
because you
are
everything,
all of it-
sprinkles, quarks, giant
donuts, eggs sunny-side up-
you
are the ever-expanding
universe
to me.

Kate DiCamillo

#25. Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.

Deepak Chopra

#26. What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

Murray Gell-Mann

#27. It's all - let's use a very specific word here - miraculous. You, me, love, quarks, sex, chocolate, the speed of light - it's all miraculous, and it always has been.

Rob Bell

#28. But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.

Lauren Bacall

#29. The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties ... but ... I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe.

Ugo Cavallero

#30. I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration.

James A. Michener

#31. The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.

Keith Donohue

#32. No one is completely worthless, for they can always serve as a horrible example. LM

Lee McLaughlin

#33. There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

Kin Hubbard

#34. Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

Anthony Marais