Quotes about angstrom

“When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.”

Bill Bryson book A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“I lost all respect for angstroms.”

Heinrich Rohrer (1933–2013) Swiss physicist

in Autobiography http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/rohrer-autobio.html, from Nobel Lectures, Physics 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Gösta Ekspång, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993