Quantum mechanics Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The great German physicist Max Planck had been advised by his lecturer, the marvellously named Philipp von Jolly, not to pursue the study of…

— J.M.R. Higgs

“In 1875, when young Max Planck announced his interest in physics, the chairman of his physics department suggested he study something more exciting. Physics,…

— Bruce Rosenblum

“In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes. { Advising his student, Max…

— Philipp von Jolly

“What do you know about quantum physics?” An unwilling curiosity welled up in Emma. “Not much except that it’s a modern theory that explains…

— Rebecca Zanetti

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

— Alain Aspect

“One of the brighter humans, a German-born theoretical physicist called Albert Einstein, explained relativity to dimmer members of his species by telling them, “Put…

— Matt Haig

The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature.…

— David C. Cassidy

“He had made a discovery of the first magnitude. It opened up an entirely new approach to physics, which led to statistical mechanics, to…

— Basil Mahon

“Thus we see that the quantisation of atomic energies into a ladder of seperate values, rather than allowing them to take on the entire…

— John D. Barrow

“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

“we think that all the forces of nature become united at something like the Planck energy, a million billion times larger than the highest…

— Steven Weinberg

“When Max Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of quantum theory, he said, “Looking back over the long and labyrinthine path…

— Brennan Manning