Quantum Quotes

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. (Niels Bohr)
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. View quote
Richard Feynman
The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry. View quote
Brandon Boyd
All our scientific observations of the universe and quanta can only, in the end, be observations of ourselves. View quote
Alan Moore
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct. View quote
Michio Kaku
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. View quote
John Polkinghorne
The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding. View quote
Martin Fleischmann
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two. View quote
Roy H. Williams
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. View quote
Yuan T. Lee
Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his credibility in scientific circles, although in reality those who criticize him use the same concept of intermediate medium in other words, whether it be fields, an associated fluid, a probability fluid, a pilot fluid, a quantum fluid, etc. View quote
Maurice Allais
People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics. (Sidney Coleman)
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability. View quote
Murray Gell-Mann
If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it. View quote
Murray Gell-Mann
The principles of quantum mechanics are so contrary to ordinary intuition that they can best be motivated by taking a look at their prehistory. View quote
Steven Weinberg
I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different...quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings. View quote
Jennifer Beals
It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics. View quote
Ilya Prigogine
I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems. View quote
Willis Lamb
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture. View quote
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing. View quote
Peter Higgs
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change. (Edward Witten)
You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? View quote
Leonard Susskind
Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing. View quote
Albert Finney
From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states-the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality”-history as we had known or inferred it-was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae." View quote
Phil Plait