"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."

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Source : "Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy". Book by J. S. Bell, 2004.

Alain Aspect

#Everyday Quotes #Needs Quotes #Physics Quotes

“Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.”
“I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it ...”

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.2
“Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York."”
“Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.”
“Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us?”

Source : Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”
“See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldnâ€™t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.”
“There's no such thing as nothing.”
“Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.”

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