Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them. Steven Weinberg
We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world. William H. Gass
According to Bohm, the ground of the cosmos is not elementary particles but pure process, a flowing movement of the whole. Within this implicate order, Bohm believed, one could resolve the Cartesian split between mind and matter, or between brain and consciousness. David Bohm
A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles (electron, etc.) and not be forced to state them a priori. Albert Einstein
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts. Werner Heisenberg
Therefore, the mathematical forms that represent the elementary particles will be solutions of some eternal law of motion for matter. Werner Heisenberg