Quantum Quotes - page 2

We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole. (David Bohm)
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined. View quote
David Bohm
In contrast to the arbitrarily complicated evolution of a (nonintegrable) classical system, all a quantum state ever does is move in circles. View quote
Sean M. Carroll
Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory. View quote
Asher Peres
Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics – this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence. View quote
Alain Aspect
I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get me started!) without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn't enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics? View quote
Tom Lehrer
[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world. View quote
Hugh Everett
I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles. View quote
John Stewart Bell
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists. View quote
David Finkelstein
Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy. View quote
Richard Feynman
The theory of quantum electrodynamics describes Nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you accept Nature as She is - absurd. (Richard Feynman)
The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway. View quote
Richard Feynman
The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off-chance that it is in another direction - a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory - who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unfashionable point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself. View quote
Richard Feynman
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables. View quote
Werner Heisenberg
The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level. View quote
Vanna Bonta
If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something. View quote
Lawrence M. Krauss
The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been dealt with by many authors, and I do not want to discuss it here. I want to deal with more fundamental things. View quote
Paul Dirac
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world. View quote
Richard Gere
I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! View quote
Robert Burns
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. The verbal interpretation, on the other hand – i. e., the metaphysics of quantum theory – is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model. (Fritjof Capra)
In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory... View quote
Erwin Schrödinger
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor... View quote
Larry Wall
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way. View quote
Larry Wall
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. View quote
Albert Einstein