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An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.

— Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Messenger Lectures (1934), New Pathways in Science (1935), 21.

See also: | Electron (27) | Hypothesis (83) | Star (55)

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