Done Quote by Lord Kelvin

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

— Peter Tait

Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and…

— Benjamin Peirce

“The association of multiplication with vector rotation was one of the geometric interpretation's most important elements because it decisively connected the imaginaries with rotary…

— David Stipp

I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

— Mark Oliver Everett

We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as…

— Arthur Koestler

A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet…

— Willis Lamb

“Every problem in quantum physics had to be first “solved” using classical physics, and then be reworked by the judicious insertion of quantum numbers…

— John Gribbin

“In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and he was…

— Christina Engela

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

— Stephen Hawking

It was easy in the early nineties to make a list of great things that could be done, now that there was such a…

— Anton Zeilinger

“Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“We have gathered here today to honor Benjamin Ripley for being the first person to ever regurgitate a wombat through a flugelhorn.”

— Stuart Gibbs