“The only ‘failure’ of quantum theory is its inability to provide a natural framework for our prejudices.”1” — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless.” — Heinz R. Pagels Copy Share Image
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life. — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
“If you think you understand quantum theory . . . you don’t understand quantum theory.’*” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The quantum revolution is not the discovery of quantum physics. It is the transition from understanding quantum reality to engineering it.” — Ludmila Morozova-Buss Copy Share Image
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“All integral laws of spectral lines and of atomic theory spring originally from the quantum theory. It is the mysterious organon on… — Arnold Sommerfeld Copy Share Image
There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key… — John H. Van Vleck Copy Share Image
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted,… — Marcus Chown Copy Share Image
Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined… — Fritjof Capra 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
“Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory… — Werner Heisenberg 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
The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“THE DIFFICULTIES AND INDEED PERPLEXITIES which beset us the moment we try to make philosophic sense out of the findings of quantum… — Wolfgang Smith Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Zero dwells at the juxtaposition of quantum mechanics and relativity; zero lives where the two theories meet, and zero causes the two… — Charles Seife 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
“The choice today is revolt. Igor Stravinsky wrote, “The old original sin was one of knowledge, the new original sin is one… — Robert R. Reilly Copy Share Image
“Curiously, Schrodinger's equation describes the change in the probability that we will obtain a particular result if we conduct an experiment. It… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Just as with sound waves, light waves emitted by a moving source show the Doppler effect. What we observe instead of the… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“To leave the atom constituted as it was but to interfere with the probability of its undetermined behaviour, does not seem quite… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he… — Ernesto "Che" Guevara Copy Share Image
“We know that the uncertainty relation implies not only the absence of empty space but also the nature of the minimal content… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent. — John Stewart Bell Copy Share Image
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. — Albert Einstein 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
The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry. — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago. — Murray Gell-Mann 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
Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image