Radiation is like butter, which can be bought or returned to the grocery store only in quarter-pound packages, although the butter as such can exist in any desired amount (not less, though, than one molecule!).


Thirty Years That Shook Physics, Chapter 1 (pp. 22-23), Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1966

George Gamow Quotes

Radiation is like butter, which can be bought or returned to the grocery store only in quarter-pound packages, although the butter as such can exist...

Radiation is like butter, which can be bought or returned to the grocery store only in quarter-pound packages, although the butter as such can exist...

Radiation is like butter, which can be bought or returned to the grocery store only in quarter-pound packages, although the butter as such can exist...

Radiation is like butter, which can be bought or returned to the grocery store only in quarter-pound packages, although the butter as such can exist...