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Quantum Mechanics Quotes by Murray Gell-Mann
- But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from…
- If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be…
- Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.
More Quantum Mechanics Quotes
- In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not… — David Bohm
- It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before… — Werner Heisenberg
- Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the… — Freeman Dyson
- String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings,… — Willie Garson
- You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what… — Leonard Susskind
- But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And… — Karl Popper
- If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. — Niels Bohr
- 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