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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… — David Bohm
- 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
- I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics. — Richard P. Feynman
- Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it. — Niels Bohr
- It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead… — Werner Heisenberg
- 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
- Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says… — Albert Einstein
- Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the… — Freeman Dyson
- [T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness. — Eugene Wigner
- When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness… — Eugene Wigner
- The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in… — Bernard d'Espagnat