Quantum Quotes

#1. 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.

Michio Kaku

#2. To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.

Fred Alan Wolf

#3. There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

Marisha Pessl

#4. But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.

John Scalzi

#5. [With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.

Seth Lloyd

#6. If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Niels Bohr

#7. Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.

Brian Greene

#8. You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. Virtual domain = the field of spirit Quantum domain = the field of mind Material reality = the field of physical existence

Deepak Chopra

#10. The quantum theory is based on the idea that there is a probability that all possible events, no matter how fantastic or silly, might occur.

Michio Kaku

#11. Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.

David Gross

#12. There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

James Dyson

#13. On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

Albert Einstein

#14. Not only does God play dice but ... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Stephen Hawking

#15. If you look at anything physical, you find out that at the quantum level, it is non-physical.

Deepak Chopra

#16. Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can't have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived. If

Rhonda Byrne

#17. The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong.

David Foster Wallace

#18. Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

Brian Greene

#19. 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

#20. The world of the everyday suddenly seemed nothing but an inverted magic act, lulling its audience into believing in the usual, familiar conceptions of space and time, while the astonishing truth of quantum reality lay carefully guarded by nature's sleights of hand.

Brian Greene

#21. All things that exist form an endless area of quantum energy with infinite possibilities waiting to happen.

Stephen Richards

#22. It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.

Edgar Mitchell

#23. Universal or quantum consciousness emphasizes that we are all interrelated, interconnected and interdependent.

Gian Kumar

#24. You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

Marianne Williamson

#25. Spooky action at a distance.

Albert Einstein

#26. I'm beginning to think that love for me is a bit like Quantum Mechanics, something I know to exist, but have no idea how it works.

R.E. Wentz

#27. A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you don't fall into the familiar patterns of your past.

Debbie Ford

#28. What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum mechanics you are forced to conclude that God exists.

Frank Tipler

#29. During the Trinity test of the very first atom bomb, Fermi wondered if the detonation would ignite the Earth's atmosphere. They just didn't know, you see. We think the quantum disruption won't propagate. If it does, then the whole universe gets converted into energy.

Peter F. Hamilton

#30. Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased.

Lee Smolin

#31. It is likely that space as we know it ceases to exist and is replaced by some form of chaotic quantum 'foam', where gravity plays a new role in fashioning the forms of energy that can exist.

Anonymous

#32. Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with a given velocity, and can we make these approximations so close that they do not cause experimental difficulties?

Werner Heisenberg

#33. There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.

Analeigh Tipton

#34. [The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

Hugh Everett III

#35. If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.

Zane Stumpo

#36. This is a quantum universe,' said Spike, 'neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.

Jeanette Winterson

#37. The domain of quantum world is so astonishingly strange that it even makes tales of alien abductions sound perfectly reasonable

Jim Al-Khalili

#38. A university student attending lectures on general relativity i the morning and others on quantum mechanics in the afternoon might be forgiven for thinking that his professors are fools, or have neglected to communicate with each other for at least a century.

Carlo Rovelli

#39. The field of quantum possibility, in which love has opened doors otherwise unimaginable, is our soul's true habitat. The world of fear and limitation is not our home, and who among us is not profoundly weary of hanging out where we do not belong.

Marianne Williamson

#40. Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are and not for what we would like them to be.

Kevin Michel

#41. Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Bill Bryson

#42. No one really understands quantum mechanics.

Richard P. Feynman

#43. Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

Edward Abbey

#44. The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.

Charles Glover Barkla

#45. A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

Niels Bohr

#46. Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

#47. So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

Stephen Hawking

#48. Acting as if" you're already happy and successful will build a subconscious expectation you will BE happy and successful.This alone creates quantum leaps!

Jill Ammon-Wexler

#49. I'm a big believer in quantum physics, which says that the universe is more incredible and mysterious than any of us can imagine, which is my way of saying, 'Anything is possible, including angels.'

Caroline Leavitt

#50. Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.
[Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area,
Tantum habet et fidei.]

Juvenal

#51. Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

Steven Weinberg

#52. The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

Erwin Schrodinger

#53. Scientifically, just because the spiritual person can manifest a drink of coffee, does not mean that he or she knows how it happens!

Richard Gentle

#54. the earliest battles flared between himself and fellow physicist Leonard Susskind over whether quantum mechanics implied that information could leak out of black holes.

David Kaiser

#55. Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

J.J.C. Smart

#56. At that moment it would have been easier for me to spontaneously grasp quantum string theory

Augusten Burroughs

#57. To be and not to be, that is the quantum question

Dean Cavanagh

#58. ...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled.

Li Zhi Fang

#59. The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I've ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I've spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Randall Munroe

#60. The universe has secrets just waiting to be unveiled.

Gerald W. Scanlon

#61. I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

Francis Collins

#62. But if it is true that the act of observing changes the thing which is observed (because of Quantum), it's even more true that it changes the observer.

Terry Pratchett

#63. The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.

Terence McKenna

#64. Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.

China Mieville

#65. Quantum reality is a nest of snakes, Clavain, and we are already poking it with a very sharp stick.

Alastair Reynolds

#66. Quantum entanglement allows you to send information faster than light, which upset Einstein. But Einstein has the last laugh. The information you send on quantum entanglement is random, useless information. So Einsein still has the last laugh.

Michio Kaku

#67. The heat of black holes is like the Rosetta stone of physics, written in a combination of three languages- quantum, gravitational, and thermodynamic- still awaiting decipherment in order to reveal the true nature of time.

Carlo Rovelli

#68. In the 'Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics,' the trajectory of your life is no longer just one straight path to an eventuality, but is instead one path of many, on an ever-branching tree of possibilities.

Kevin Michel

#69. They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#70. I am fascinated by quantum physics.

Vinny Guadagnino

#71. All integral laws of spectral lines and of atomic theory spring originally from the quantum theory. It is the mysterious organon on which Nature plays her music of the spectra, and according to the rhythm of which she regulates the structure of the atoms and nuclei.

Arnold Sommerfeld

#72. Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#73. the particles are quanta of quantum fields; light is formed by quanta of a field; space is nothing more than a field, which is also made of quanta; and time emerges from the processes of this same field. In other words, the world is made entirely from quantum fields (

Carlo Rovelli

#74. When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

Robert B. Laughlin

#75. Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Niels Bohr

#76. Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.

George Johnson

#77. In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

Arthur Eddington

#78. An event horizon is also called the point of no return. In a sense of general relativity, it's the point at which the gravitational pull becomes so great escape is impossible. Some theorize quantum gravity effects become significant in the vicinity of such an occurrence.

Karen Marie Moning

#79. In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.

Arjuna Ardagh

#80. Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity.

Kip Thorne

#81. It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.

Werner Heisenberg

#82. Sometimes, we do not need a lot of words to convey meaning. For example, imagine a lovely sunset.

Richard Gentle

#83. A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition ... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve.

Willis Lamb

#84. You are all wave particles when I close my eyes. I am no more entranced by your entanglement than a butterfly is to a bee.

Solange Nicole

#85. If a handful of people look at the making of the film and realize, "Oh, my god!" It was so complicated. It was like doing quantum physics calculations every day while you're telling a joke. It was so insane! So, they can feel my pain.

Rob Letterman

#86. Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, and its direction, simultaneously.

Mark Pesce

#87. In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.

Gregory Benford

#88. I looked up at the wall. My bachelor's degree had been in History. Films like Back to the Future and Quantum Leap had been some of my favorite programs. Could time travel really be possible? This seemed too unreal.

Anna M. Aquino

#89. Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#90. After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

Werner Heisenberg

#91. I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

Michael Pollan

#92. I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that.

Tila Tequila

#93. By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.

Michio Kaku

#94. Werner Heisenberg put it, "what we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." Heisenberg, a German physicist, made this observation regarding quantum mechanics, but it holds equally true for explorations of the animal

Frans De Waal

#95. Everything I do now
Was once an unremembered dream.
-Spoken by Dr. Perry after return from the chrysalis

Don Murphy

#96. I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost.

Steven Wright

#97. Music is everything; without it, we [people] are nothing. We're just living vibrations of molecular tinglings, and without music we'd explode into nothing and go down a quantum hole.

Ron Rothfield

#98. You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#99. The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
[Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

Juvenal

#100. The universe is a quantum computer. Since you can simulate any set of particle interactions with a quantum computer made of the same number of particles, then there's no practical difference between the universe and a quantum computer simulating the universe.

David Walton