Arthur Eddington Quote

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.


Gifford Lectures (1927), The Nature of the Physical World (1928)


The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.