Philip Ball Quote

As far as atoms are concerned, protons and electrons are like knives and forks at the dinner table; no matter how big the table, there are equal numbers of each.

Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water, Part One, Chapter 1 (p. 7), Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2000

As far as atoms are concerned, protons and electrons are like knives and forks at the dinner table; no matter how big the table, there are equal...

As far as atoms are concerned, protons and electrons are like knives and forks at the dinner table; no matter how big the table, there are equal...

As far as atoms are concerned, protons and electrons are like knives and forks at the dinner table; no matter how big the table, there are equal...

As far as atoms are concerned, protons and electrons are like knives and forks at the dinner table; no matter how big the table, there are equal...