Alive Quote by David Papineau

I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this view, Schrödinger's…

— David Papineau

“I incline to the quantum mechanical view in this matter. My theory is that your cat is not lost, but that his waveform has…

— Douglas Adams

Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would…

— Terry Pratchett

“Apparently, when people travel between dimensions, their physical forms are "no longer observable," which is a quantum mechanics thing, and explaining it involves this…

— Claudia Gray

“the litter of Schrödinger's cat is all over our decision tasks”

— Tali Sharot

“So, according to the theory that electrons are in all-possible-positions until they are measured, the cat is both alive and dead until we open…

— John Green

When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

— Stephen Hawking

I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.

— John Green

“Speaking of boxes... Do you know that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the poison? Theory requires the cat to be…

— Ted Kosmatka

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking:…

— Tom Stoppard

“You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! That's not just an arbitrary rule, it's implied by the form…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the…

— Terry Pratchett