On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry. — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing. — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent. — John Stewart Bell Copy Share Image
“Neils Bohr … is said to have remarked that anyone who did not feel dizzy when thinking about quantum theory had not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key… — John H. Van Vleck Copy Share Image
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment “Now.” As this moment steadily advances… — William Lawrence Bragg Copy Share Image
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
If we do get a quantum theory of spacetime, it should answer some of the deepest philosophical questions that we have, like… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“It would probably be wiser to nail up over the door of the new quantum theory a notice, 'Structural alterations in progress… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it… — Ravi Gomatam Copy Share Image
“Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the… — Gordon L. Kane Copy Share Image
“When Max Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of quantum theory, he said, “Looking back over the long and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“In 1967, the second resolution to the cat problem was formulated by Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose work was pivotal in laying… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“In string theory, the situation is very different. The law of motion dictates the laws of the forces. This is because all… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom would be solved when… — Arnold Sommerfeld Copy Share Image
“During the life of a black hole, it will pull in huge amounts of matter, carrying huge amounts of intrinsic information. At… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Quantum theory has unfortunately become a catch-all phrase for trying to prove various kinds of New Age nonsense. It’s unlikely that the… — Robert P. Lanza Copy Share Image
“Quantum theory, in turn, has its own trouble with infinities. They appear whenever you attempt to use quantum mechanics to describe fields,… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“This was true of any and every aspect of knowledge; you figured out how to learn it, and you exposed yourself to… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
“Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless.” — Heinz R. Pagels Copy Share Image
“The only ‘failure’ of quantum theory is its inability to provide a natural framework for our prejudices.”1” — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life. — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality. — Ian Hacking 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
“If you think you understand quantum theory . . . you don’t understand quantum theory.’*” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image