Accurate Quote by Werner Heisenberg

It is seen that both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other…

— Werner Heisenberg

When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of…

— Alan Guth

Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles.…

— Werner Heisenberg

The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description…

— Paul Dirac

“Electrons and photons are still worse. In graduate school I roomed for a time with a particle physicist. He ended one attempt to explain…

— Steven Vogel

Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong,

— Neil Turok

“Dick Feynman was a genius of visualization (he was also no slouch with equations): he made a mental picture of anything he was working…

— Leonard Susskind

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

— Max von Laue

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think

— Murray Gell-Mann

“light was both a wave and a particle.”

— Jerome Pohlen

There is often times a confusion of things, of particles, of the concepts considered essential whence theorems, laws, concepts are born that no one…

— Mariana Fulger