Quantum Mechanics Quotes
100 Quantum Mechanics quotes by 58 unique authors
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I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics,…
— G. H. Hardy
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Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life…
— Roy H. Williams
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Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.
— Roger Penrose
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It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as…
— Robert L. Devaney
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Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not…
— Georges Lemaitre
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You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is…
— Leonard Susskind
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The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics,…
— Robert Nozick
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There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.
— Analeigh Tipton
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In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like…
— Richard K. Morgan
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If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own…
— Richard P. Feynman
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...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has…
— David Mermin
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Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication.
— Gary Zukav
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...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where…
— Albert Einstein
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...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.
— Gary Zukav
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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
— Immanuel Kant
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But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And when they clash,…
— Karl Popper
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Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that…
— Karl Popper
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The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to…
— Werner Heisenberg
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But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other hand that its…
— Karl Popper
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