Quantum mechanics Quotes

“Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.”

— David J. Griffiths

“...true story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.”

— John Gribbin

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

“general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot both be right,”

— Brad S. Gregory

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

— Michio Kaku

“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.”

— Wernher Von Braun

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

— Richard P. Feynman

I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

— Mark Oliver Everett

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the…

— Brian Greene

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

Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.

— Scott Aaronson

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

— Sidney Coleman

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

— David Gross

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but…

— Steven Weinberg

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

— Brian Greene

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

— Victor J. Stenger

According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large…

— Brian Greene

“One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that…

— Leon M. Lederman

“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

It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some…

— Karl Popper

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger…

— Richard P. Feynman

“You can take the entire world of physics with all of its macrocosm and microcosm, its quantum mechanics and nuclear physics and…

— Chris Prentiss

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the…

— Richard P. Feynman

“I think that the obscurity of the theory is not the fault of quantum mechanics but is rather due to the limited…

— Carlo Rovelli

Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the…

— Freeman Dyson

“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

Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,…

— Huston Smith

I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this…

— David Papineau

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

“Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible…

— Neal Stephenson

Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have…

— Edgar Mitchell

“The many-worlds theory basically maintains that the reason quantum mechanics seems so strange is because we have access to only one of…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is,…

— Carl Sagan

“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

“The Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics: Problem 1: Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim…

— Lee Smolin

“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

“What if our worldline is just one of an infinite number of worldlines, some only slightly altered from the life we know,…

— Blake Crouch

“the difference between hard transparent diamond and soft black graphite is not to do with their atoms: in both cases, they are…

— Mark Miodownik

“Then, in 1974, Stephen Hawking made a dramatic discovery. He decided to examine for the forst time what occurs when one applies…

— John D. Barrow

“The parameter we hold responsible for the ability or inability of a particle to move with a velocity other than that of…

— Henning Genz