When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
-- Niels Bohr, (Oct 7 1885-1962), Danish physicist; He was the major contributor for 50 years to developing quantum physics and established the Bohr theory of the atom.