Quantum famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks
-- Albert Einstein -
In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.
-- Arjuna Ardagh -
Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.
-- Asher Peres -
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.
-- Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker -
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.
-- David Bohm -
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
-- David Deutsch -
Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!
-- Diane Duane -
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.
-- Hans Christian von Baeyer -
[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.
-- Hugh Ross -
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
-- James Dyson -
For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.
-- Jenny Diski -
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.
-- John Polkinghorne -
Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.
-- John Stewart Bell -
I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles.
-- John Stewart Bell -
The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]
-- Juvenal -
If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss -
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?
-- Leonard Susskind -
Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.
-- Michio Kaku -
We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.
-- Neil Turok -
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 -
Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.
-- Niels Bohr -
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.
-- Niels Bohr -
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.
-- Richard Gere -
Quantum physics shows us the universe as a dynamic web of connection.
-- Robert Moss -
The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.
-- Seth Lloyd -
Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.
-- Seth Lloyd -
I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
-- Talulah Riley -
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more reasonable to try to establish a theoretical quantum mechanics, analogous to classical mechanics, but in which only relations between observable quantities occur.
-- Werner Heisenberg -
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.
-- Yuan T. Lee -
Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.
-- Roger Penrose -
There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.
-- Sean M. Carroll
