“If an apple is magnified to the size of the earth, then the atoms in the apple are approximately the size of the original apple.”

— Richard Feynman

volume I; lecture 1, "Atoms in Motion"; section 1-2, "Matter is made of atoms"; p. 1-3
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

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