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Quote by Joseph John Thomson

“The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!”

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Joseph John Thomson was a renowned physicist known for his contributions to atomic theory and the discovery of the electron. He proposed the 'plum pudding model' to describe atomic structure and discovered the electron, laying the foundation for modern physics. more

“As the cathode rays carry a charge of negative electricity, are deflected by an electrostatic force as if they were negatively electrified, and are acted on by a magnetic force in just the way in which this force would act on a negatively electrified body moving along the path of these rays, I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter.”

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Author:Joseph John Thomson

“Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit”

Hard Bulletproof

Book:Coyote Blue: A Novel

Source: Coyote Blue: A Novel

“It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.”