John Gribbin Quote

Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron, he said, and our best description of the atom boils down to something unknown is doing we don't know what.

John Gribbin

Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron, he said, and our best description of the atom boils down to something unknown is doing we don't know what.

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About John Gribbin

John R. Gribbin (born 19 March 1946) is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. His writings include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change, global warming, the origins of the universe, and biographies of famous scientists. He also writes science fiction.