Combining Quote by Linus Pauling

Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to…

— Pieter Zeeman

“Realizing its fundamental importance in understanding spectral lines, in atomic physics and in the theory of how light and electrons interact, quantum electrodynamics, Pauli…

— Arthur I. Miller

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

— Niels Bohr

“Quantum physics teaches us that we can simultaneously exist in many places, under certain conditions.”

— Amit Ray

In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a…

— Johannes Stark

Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with…

— George Johnson

The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

— Sidney Coleman

“Wolfgang Pauli, in the months before Heisenberg's paper on matrix mechanics pointed the way to a new quantum theory, wrote to a friend, "At…

— Wolfgang Pauli Thomas S. Kuhn

In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for…

— Erwin Schrodinger

No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

— Paul Ehrenfest

“The E and H waves always travel together: neither can exist alone. They vibrate at right angles to each other and are always in…

— Basil Mahon

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the…

— Richard P. Feynman