In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical… — Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker Copy Share Image
I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Now, at the outset of the twenty-first century, we stand on the verge of a new revolution. The search for a deeper… — Marcus Chown Copy Share Image
“Problem 1: Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim to be the complete theory of nature.… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“In life, like in the quantum realm, the hidden cost of doing nothing ends the moment you do something. Anything. However small.… — Ludmila Morozova-Buss Copy Share Image
By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
[When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“To know our true essence, we need to leave all of the energy of low vibrations out of our consciousness. We must… — Kenneth Schmitt 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
“The key question for a quantum theory of gravity is then the following: Can we extend to quantum theory the principle that… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“The prime number 137 had continuously occupied Pauli's mind. It is an approximate value for a constant appearing in the fine structure… — K. V. Laurikainen Copy Share Image
I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“Realizing its fundamental importance in understanding spectral lines, in atomic physics and in the theory of how light and electrons interact, quantum… — Arthur I. Miller Copy Share Image
“Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“Bohr is really doing what the Stoic allegorists did to close the gap between their world and Homer's, or what St. Augustine… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“There are lots of things I don't understand - say, the latest debates over whether neutrinos have mass or the way that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Curiously, Schrodinger's equation describes the change in the probability that we will obtain a particular result if we conduct an experiment. It… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Just as with sound waves, light waves emitted by a moving source show the Doppler effect. What we observe instead of the… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“To leave the atom constituted as it was but to interfere with the probability of its undetermined behaviour, does not seem quite… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“Chris hurried after him. 'It's so hard to believe we just travelled hundreds of light years.' 'Why?' asked the Doctor. 'I always… — Gareth Roberts Copy Share Image
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted,… — Marcus Chown Copy Share Image
“Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamics, defined as the square of the charge of the electron… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability,… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to… — David Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated by the parallels between quantum theory and the teachings of some of these ancient texts. So many of the… — Beryl Bender Birch Copy Share Image
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
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