Timeline of Atomic and Subatomic Physics

Famous quotes containing the words atomic and/or physics:

    “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”
    —J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967)

    “Although philosophers generally believe in laws and deny causes, explanatory practice in physics is just the reverse.”
    —Nancy Cartwright (b. 1945)