Falun Buddha Fa Lectures in United States http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/mgjf.htm
“Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.”
The Taming of the Screw (1983)
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As quoted in "The Most Wanted Man in the World" http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/wosama.html (16 September 2001), Time magazine profile.
2000s, 2001
"Cathode rays" http://web.lemoyne.edu/~GIUNTA/thomson1897.html Philosophical Magazine, 44, 293 (1897).
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Context: As the cathode rays carry a charge of negative electricity, are deflected by an electrostatic force as if they were negatively electrified, and are acted on by a magnetic force in just the way in which this force would act on a negatively electrified body moving along the path of these rays, I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter.
As quoted by Andrew Norton, Dynamic fields and waves (2000) p. 83.
“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
Part 2, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
““Do you know what this is?
“The floor, Miss?”
“Dust! I read about it—tiny particles of matter.””
Part 2, Chapter 7, “The Investigation Begins” (p. 163).
Jack Glass (2012)
The Observer (1964-12-27)
Misattributed to George Bernard Shaw on The West Wing, Season 2, Episode 14: The War At Home. Fictional President Bartlett, smoking a cigarette, spoke the second half of the quote and attributed it to Shaw. His chief of staff disputed whether it was Shaw, and the President concurred.