Quantum Fluctuations Quotes

#1. So look carefully at the map of the microwave sky. It is the blueprint for all the structure in the universe. We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. If one were religious, one could say that God really does play dice.

Stephen Hawking

#2. The quantum fluctuations within a zero-point field can start the process that builds the process, which builds into matter, an irreversible process. We have some evidence that suggests that. We don't have a Big Bang, but we have a lot of little pops! A continuous set of little pops!

Edgar Mitchell

#3. 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.

Larry Wall

#4. We are a product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

John C. Lennox

#5. The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often.

Murray Gell-Mann

#6. The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

Philip Warren Anderson

#7. What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

John Archibald Wheeler

#9. In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

William Faulkner

#10. The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

Seth Godin

#11. The flip-flap of Carmen's slippers could be heard out in the corridor, an aggressive sound, more eloquent than any words.

Jose Saramago

#12. Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.

Gore Verbinski

#13. Opportunity is walking through your life every day in the form of people you meet.

Zig Ziglar

#14. Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#15. My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

Tom Brokaw

#16. Drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.

Elizabeth Ashley

#17. Don't worry, fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans.

Martin Millar

#18. It occurred to him that seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.

John Crowley