In closing, I should like to cite a line from William Blake. “To see a world in a grain of sand - - - ” and allude to a possible parallel to see worlds in an electron.

— Hans Georg Dehmelt, Nobel Lecture (1989)

Source: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1989/dehmelt-lecture.html

Closing remark of his Nobel lecture, on the physics of subatomic particles.

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