“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” — Wernher Von Braun Copy Share Image
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same. — Scott Aaronson Copy Share Image
The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
“I'm beginning to think that love for me is a bit like Quantum Mechanics, something I know to exist, but have no… — R. E. Wentz Copy Share Image
When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Margrethe: And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world?… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“In string theory, zero has been banished from the universe; there is no such thing as zero distance or zero time. This… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Quantum physics teaches us that we can simultaneously exist in many places, under certain conditions.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“Quantum mechanics extends this relativity in a radical way: all variable aspects of an object exist only in relation to other objects.… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“The German physicist Max Planck, after whom these unimaginably small quantities are named, introduced the idea of quantized energy in 1900 and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
In many ways, string theory attempts to go beyond Einstein's dream... an all-encompassing description of nature that works at large distances where… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
“The key shortcoming of the multiverse theory, however, is that it appeals to something outside the universe, namely, a vast ensemble of… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
“As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“When you ask what are electrons and protons I ought to answer that this question is not a profitable one to ask… — Paul A.M. Dirac Copy Share Image
In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Many scientists have tried to make determinism and complementarity the basis of conclusions that seem to me weak and dangerous; for instance,… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
“One of the brighter humans, a German-born theoretical physicist called Albert Einstein, explained relativity to dimmer members of his species by telling… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Removing zero from the universe might seem like a drastic step, but strings are much more tractable than dots; by eliminating zero,… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me… — Robert L. Devaney 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
“Wheeler wasn’t the first to point out that quantum mechanics slips into paradox the minute you introduce a second observer. The Nobel… — Amanda Gefter Copy Share Image
“The point of absolute equilibrium is where the Universe reaches its “highest absolute” point on the macro side and its “lowest absolute”… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“INTO AND OUT OF THE VACUUM To make real particles out of the virtual ones that are part of the vacuum fluctuations,… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you’re so weird,” she says. I look at her, or at least her chin,… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“The Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics: Problem 1: Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“What if our worldline is just one of an infinite number of worldlines, some only slightly altered from the life we know,… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“The deep significance of this discovery appears to be that we have found a physical situation where two different natural principles, of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image