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
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in… — Seth Lloyd 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
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image