Dale Carnegie wrote: “There are as many atoms in one drop of water as there are drops of water in the Mediterranean Sea – and, there are as many atoms in one drop of water as there are blades of grass in all the world. And the atoms that make this paper are composed of what? Still smaller things called electrons and protons. These electrons are all rotating around the central proton of the atom, as far from it, relatively speaking, as the moon is from the earth. And they are swinging through their orbits, these electrons of this tiny universe, at the inconceivable speed of approximately ten thousand miles a second. So the electrons that compose this sheet of paper [in this book] you are holding have moved, since you began reading this very sentence, a distance equal to that which stretches between New York and Tokyo.”

Dale Carnegie (1927), How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking”, Verillion: p.214