Arthur Compton Quote

We are thus faced with the fact that the fundamental things in nature, matter, and radiation, present to us a dual aspect. In certain ways they act like particles, in others like waves. The experiments tell us that we must seize both horns of the dilemma.


Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, (1929), What is Light? (p. 226)


We are thus faced with the fact that the fundamental things in nature, matter, and radiation, present to us a dual aspect. In certain ways they act...

We are thus faced with the fact that the fundamental things in nature, matter, and radiation, present to us a dual aspect. In certain ways they act...

We are thus faced with the fact that the fundamental things in nature, matter, and radiation, present to us a dual aspect. In certain ways they act...

We are thus faced with the fact that the fundamental things in nature, matter, and radiation, present to us a dual aspect. In certain ways they act...