2 Quotes by Waldemar Kaempffert

The launch of Nautilus, the world’s first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.

In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.