The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the… — Alain Aspect Copy Share Image
In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum… — Aaron D. O'Connell Copy Share Image
“The Quantum Mechanic will fix your car, but it won’t work unless you observe him fixing it” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting… — Willis Lamb Copy Share Image
You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“She thought he might have said her name, but it was background radiation accompanying the hum in her ears and the symphony… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
“You can take the entire world of physics with all of its macrocosm and microcosm, its quantum mechanics and nuclear physics and… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have… — Willis Lamb Copy Share Image
“I think that the obscurity of the theory is not the fault of quantum mechanics but is rather due to the limited… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
“Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect was the work for which he ultimately won the Nobel Prize. It was published in 1905,… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“We are not talking about waves or particles, what we are talking about is a quantum of action in a field. This… — Rick Delmonico Copy Share Image
The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“Weierstrass, Cantor, or Peano! In physics, an analogous development threatened since about 1800, since Laplace’s Celestial Mechanics avoided all illustration. And it… — Benoît B. Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“The more we delve into quantum mechanics the stranger the world becomes; appreciating this strangeness of the world, whilst still operating in… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
Over time, I started becoming more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort… — Moby Copy Share Image
Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“When the noise died down, she could lose herself in mathematics—in attempts to combine quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity—and forget… — David Lagercrantz Copy Share Image
Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics] — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
One of the main successes of string theory is that it has been able to unify the general theory of relativity, which… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics! — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.” — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
“The quantum revolution is not the discovery of quantum physics. It is the transition from understanding quantum reality to engineering it.” — Ludmila Morozova-Buss Copy Share Image
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet,” the Danish Nobel physicist Niels Bohr once said.” — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
“Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy.” — Daniel M. Greenberger Copy Share Image
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's. — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works. — Taner Edis Copy Share Image