Top 100 Quantum Quotes
#1. 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 ...
Erwin Schrodinger
#2. Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.
Niels Bohr
#4. But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
Antonin Artaud
#5. David Deutsch, in The Fabric of Reality, embraces the 'many worlds' interpretation of quantum theory,
Richard Dawkins
#6. I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see all the incredible inventions I know will be out there, but I'd be able to understand the science behind them!
Caroline Leavitt
#7. The world of quantum mechanics is not a world of objects: it is a world of events.
Carlo Rovelli
#8. In quantum physics, the study of material at the subatomic level, you get down to the tiniest levels. When they take these subatomic particles, put them in particle accelerators and collide them, quantum physicists discover there's nothing there. There's no one home - no ghost in the machine.
Wayne Dyer
#9. I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.
James Dashner
#10. "There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe."
Albert Einstein
#11. Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, "Well, isn't she full of herself," smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
Anne Lamott
#12. The main point is that quantum reality is REALLY, REALLY BIG. We'll build up a toy model that describes social life among the spins of just five particles, and we'll discover that it fills out a space of thirty-two dimensions.
Frank Wilczek
#13. your first thought would send the power of Quantum physics into a hive of activity. your first thought, would inevitably become the destiny of the day
Andre Jordan
#14. I learned that opening myself to my own love and to life's tough loveliness not only was the most delicious, amazing thing on earth but also was quantum. It would radiate out to a cold, hungry world. Beautiful moments heal, as do real cocoa, Pete Seeger, a walk on old fire roads.
Anne Lamott
#15. There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.
Lee Smolin
#16. Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state.
Alberto Villoldo
#17. 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
#18. I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.
Michael Sheen
#19. I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
David Gross
#20. The passage of time is internal to the world, is born in the world itself in the relationship between quantum events that comprise the world and are themselves the source of time. The
Carlo Rovelli
#21. I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
Talulah Riley
#22. A thousand-bit quantum computer would vastly outperform any conceivable DNA computer, or for that matter any conceivable nonquantum computer.
Ray Kurzweil
#23. If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.
Richard P. Feynman
#24. It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.
Richard P. Feynman
#25. In 1965, physicist Richard Feynman opined, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics," and the sentiment is equally applicable today.
Sean Carroll
#26. Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change their quantum state and cannot be created. Therefore, even if one could amplify gold atoms, one would not realize the dreams of medieval alchemy.
Wolfgang Ketterle
#27. In fact, according to quantum physics, each particle has some probability of being found anywhere in the universe.
Stephen Hawking
#28. During research conducted with the neuroscientist Keiko Yamasuki, he discovered that brain activity for thoughts and memories operated on the quantum level rather than on the molecular level as previously believed.
Liu Cixin
#29. The publicity of the Nobel Prize has made clear that the research work connected with the Quantum Hall Effect was so successful because a tremendous large number of institutions and individuals supported this activity.
Klaus Von Klitzing
#30. A classical computation is like a solo voice - one line of pure tones succeeding each other. A quantum computation is like a symphony - many lines of tones interfering with one another.
Seth Lloyd
#31. One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key there are unexpected rooms beyond, but it is always the master key that unlocks each door.
John H. Van Vleck
#32. To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out happily as part of an open-ended quantum array.
Ruth Ozeki
#33. I'm fascinated with quantum physics.
Will.i.am
#34. Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#35. Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#36. When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.
David Gross
#37. The life force knows exactly what it takes to keep any particular living organism - any organism - alive. Anything in manifestation, for that matter. Even a rock is a manifestation of some sort, and you know, in physics and quantum physics, they know a rock is not dead.
Lindsay Wagner
#38. Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans - and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas - than quantum mechanics.
Sean Carroll
#39. To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?
Steve Jobs
#40. 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
#41. How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#42. In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you've ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes.
Nick Payne
#43. If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.
Moby
#44. Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.
Vanna Bonta
#45. I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition. I find quantum physics fascinating, so I like to write about that, and I like things that make me laugh.
Kirsten Vangsness
#46. It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!
Roger Penrose
#47. If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.
Erwin Schrodinger
#48. Quantum mechanics extends this relativity in a radical way: all variable aspects of an object exist only in relation to other objects. It is only in interactions that nature draws the world.
Carlo Rovelli
#49. The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
Richard P. Feynman
#50. For more details about the Curies especially, see Sheilla Jones's wonderful book The Quantum Ten, an account of the surprisingly contentious and fractious early days of quantum mechanics, circa 1925.
Sam Kean
#51. No phenomenon directly involving a frequency has yet been detected above approximately 10^12 cycles per second. We only deduce the higher frequencies from the energy of the particles, by a rule which assumes that the particle-wave idea of quantum mechanics is valid.
Richard Feynman
#52. 250 qubits, it is possible to represent roughly 1075 combinations, which is greater than the number of atoms in the universe. If it were possible to achieve the appropriate superposition with 250 particles, then a quantum computer could perform 1075 simultaneous computations,
Simon Singh
#53. The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
William Shatner
#54. 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.
Werner Heisenberg
#55. Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.
Marianne Williamson
#56. Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds.
Debbie Ford
#57. Seriousness of mind was a prerequisite for understanding Newtonian physics. I am not convinced it is not a handicap in understanding quantum theory.
Connie Willis
#58. Based upon quantum mechanics, our physical reality should not be solid. Most likely our physical reality is an elaborate illusion within our own consciousness and the collective consciousness of the Universe/God.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#59. Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.
Gregg Braden
#60. Y'know,' he said, 'it's very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is.
Terry Pratchett
#61. We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.
Kip Thorne
#62. According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.
Seth Lloyd
#63. 'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around the planet gave me a certain notoriety that helped me get other work.
Scott Bakula
#64. 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
#65. We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.
Neil Turok
#66. CHILD: "Why does carrot cake have the best icing?" MOTHER: "Because it needs the best icing." Quantum Nonlocality and the Death of Elvis Presley You may remember
B.J. Novak
#67. I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.
Augusten Burroughs
#68. I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different ... quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.
Jennifer Beals
#69. When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.
Seth Lloyd
#70. Many of us have no grasp of quantum theory, or Einstein's theories of special and general relativity, but this does not in itself lead us to oppose these theories! Darwinism, unlike 'Einsteinism', seems to be regarded as fair game for critics with any degree of ignorance.
Richard Dawkins
#71. Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.
Seth Lloyd
#72. My experience has been that times always ends. In theory, you are right, the quantum physicists are right, the religious and romantics are right. Time without end. In practice we both wear a watch.
Jeanette Winterson
#73. Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals.
Robin Crow
#74. Quantum mechanics - the physics of our world - requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
Brian Greene
#75. 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
#76. Three of the four forces (excluding gravity) are therefore united by quantum theory, giving us unification without geometry, which appears to contradict the theme of this book and everything we have considered so far.
Michio Kaku
#77. Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.
Victor J. Stenger
#78. The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought!
Rhonda Byrne
#79. We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.
Kane Freeman
#80. So we're damned if we do and damned if we don't." She shrugged. "That pretty much sums up quantum physics.
James Rollins
#81. I am ceaselessly occupied with the question of the constitution of radiation ... This quantum question is so incredibly important and difficult that everyone should busy himself on it.
Albert Einstein
#82. The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
Fred Alan Wolf
#83. Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.
John Polkinghorne
#84. The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
Martin Fleischmann
#85. In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.
Huston Smith
#86. Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn't have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.
Gerard 't Hooft
#87. Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.
Joseph Joubert
#88. All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.
Abhijit Naskar
#89. I believe the human race is ready to make a quantum leap forward spiritually and morally.
Marianne Williamson
#90. 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
#91. singularities, he asserted, "are a place in which the fiery marriage of Einstein's relativistic laws with the quantum laws is consummated.
Kip S. Thorne
#92. For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.
Amit Goswami
#93. The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.
Antony Garrett Lisi
#94. Quantum physics is teaching us that particles themselves don't create particles. It's what Jesus said 2,000 years ago, that it's the Spirit that gives life and that you don't get particles from more particles.
Wayne Dyer
#95. Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown.
Mona Charen
#96. Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]
Niels Bohr
#97. Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!
-The Doctor (Matt Smith)
Steven Moffat
#98. Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.
Roy H. Williams
#99. When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics
Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#100. The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.
Brian Greene
