“Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron," he said, and our best description of the atom boils down… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Einstein” — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“...the best things in science are both beautiful and simple, a fact that all too many teacher conceal from their students, by accident or… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“From this", says Schrödinger, "I learned many things, but not religion." His favourite question was, "Sir, do you really believe that?” — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“It isn't just that Bohr's atom with its electron "orbits" is a false picture; all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“...there is no underlying reality to the world. "Reality," in the everyday sense, is not a good way to think about the behavior of… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“Every problem in quantum physics had to be first “solved” using classical physics, and then be reworked by the judicious insertion of quantum numbers… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“The natural effect of processes going on in the Universe is to move from a state of order to a state of disorder, unless… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
