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I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.

I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.

"Foreword" by Frederick Reines to "Spaceship Neutrino" by Christine Sutton, (p. xi), 1992.

DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

"Answers to Correspondents". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The Californian (June 17, 1865), reprinted in Mark Twain's book "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches", 1867.

Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.17, editionNEXT.com

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

Laurie Beth Jones (1998). “The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life”, Hyperion

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.107, Penguin UK

I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

Speaking to Jeremy Treglown, editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Quoted in Derwent May Critical Times: The History of the Times Literary Supplement (2001).

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.27, Harvard University Press

The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.

Smithsonian Institution, James Smithson (1966). “Knowledge Among Men: Eleven Essays on Science, Culture, and Society Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of James Smithson”

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

"Jack Abramoff's School Days" by Timothy Noah, www.slate.com. April 27, 2005.

Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity.

Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam