Quantum Mechanics Quotes
100 quotes by 61 authors
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.
— David Bohm
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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
— Niels Bohr
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Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
— Richard P. Feynman
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Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.
— Niels Bohr
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It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more…
— Werner Heisenberg
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It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At…
— Werner Heisenberg
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Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but…
— Albert Einstein
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Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum…
— Freeman Dyson
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[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
— Eugene Wigner
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When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the…
— Eugene Wigner
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The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum…
— Bernard d'Espagnat
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A further aspect I should like to discuss is what I call the practice of infinite escape clauses. I believe we developed this practice to…
— Sidney W. Fox
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It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter…
— John Stewart Bell
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String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck…
— Willie Garson
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Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during…
— Edward Abbey
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The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet…
— David C. Cassidy
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From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it will only be…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and…
— Paul Dirac
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According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky.…
— Brian Greene
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