“How could the vacuum, which has nothing in it, have any energy at all? The answer comes from another equation: Einstein's famous… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum… — Martin Rees 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
I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing. — Peter Higgs 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
“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
There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“Wolfgang Pauli, in the months before Heisenberg's paper on matrix mechanics pointed the way to a new quantum theory, wrote to a… — Wolfgang Pauli Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Neils Bohr … is said to have remarked that anyone who did not feel dizzy when thinking about quantum theory had not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“When Max Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of quantum theory, he said, “Looking back over the long and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
