Quantum Mechanics Quotes
100 Quantum Mechanics quotes by 58 unique authors
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It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
— Eugene Wigner
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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental…
— Yuan T. Lee
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There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
— Marisha Pessl
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Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too,…
— Huston Smith
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A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to…
— Unknown Author
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The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.
— Victor J. Stenger
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Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen…
— Antony Garrett Lisi
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Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity,…
— Brian Greene
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The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just…
— Antony Garrett Lisi
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If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?
— Aaron D. O'Connell
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This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum mechanics, and consciousness.…
— George Greenstein
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Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics…
— Brian Greene
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Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been deeply mysterious and…
— Richard Dawkins
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At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
— Richard P. Feynman
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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
Who Wrote These Quantum Mechanics Quotes
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