Carl David Anderson quotes

Carl David Anderson was an American physicist best known for his discovery of the positron. This groundbreaking achievement provided the first direct evidence of antimatter. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to particle physics. Here are 5 of his quotes:

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.

Carl David Anderson

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

Carl David Anderson

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

Carl David Anderson

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

Carl David Anderson