If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics. — Sidney Coleman Copy Share Image
It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from… — Werner Heisenberg 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
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
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
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
According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of… — Gary Zukav 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
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some… — Karl Popper 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
“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
Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The more you study quantum mechanics, the more crazy and incomprehensible it becomes. You truly do need a Ph.D. in very high… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“In Keynes’s time, physicists were first grappling with the concept of quantum mechanics, which, among other things, imagined a cosmos governed by… — Peter D. Schiff Copy Share Image
“Positional, or potential energy, is the energy we add to a rock when we lift it from the floor and put it… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Quantum mechanics. What a repository, a dump, of human aspiration it was, the borderland where mathematical rigor defeated common sense, and reason… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example… — G.H. Hardy 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
“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
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
The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom. — Max Born Copy Share Image
“According to string theory in quantum mechanics the core of energy and matter on a subatomic level is a vibrating, string-like filament… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
“Nobody is above you, no one below. You're as ordinary or extraordinary as any other - since all's an immanent oneness of… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
“People want electrons to orbit atoms like tiny planets, hard and regular. They make sense that way. People like that…they don't want… — Adam Felber Copy Share Image
What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum… — Frank Tipler Copy Share Image
I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes.… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image