Quantum Quotes

• If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

  Niels Bohr

  Confused, Science, Mechanic

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• Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

  Niels Bohr

  Real, Physics, Made

  "Yoga Deepens Its Roots in the West" by Ravé Mehta, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Looks, Physics

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• God is subtle but he is not malicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Math

  Remark made during a week at Princeton beginning 9 May 1921, later carved above the fireplace of the Common Room of Fine Hall (the Mathematical Institute), Princeton University - in R. W. Clark Einstein (1973) ch. 14

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• A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Philosopher, Results, Produce

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• Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

  Roger Penrose

  Physics, Mechanic, Quantum Mechanics

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• I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fake People, Thinking, Physics

  The Character of Physical Law ch. 6 (1965)

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• Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.

  David Finkelstein

  People, Confusing, Different

  "Physics and Whitehead: quantum, process, and experience". Book editing by Timothy E. Eastman and Hank Keeton, 2012.

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• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Address to Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 27 Jan. 1921

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• Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Oneness, Physics, Universe

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• If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

  Albert Einstein

  Physics, Ends, Theory

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• If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Giving, Fundamentals, Way

  "THE SIMPLE AND THE COMPLEX Part I: THE QUANTUM AND THE QUASI-CLASSICAL with MURRAY GELL-MANN, Ph.D". Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, www.intuitionnetwork.org.

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• The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

  Richard P. Feynman

  Reality, Feelings, Conflict

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III". Book edited by Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands (pp. 18-19), 1964.

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• I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Sorry, Apology, Science

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• Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.

  Amit Goswami

  Inspirational, Creativity, Long

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• When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'

  Niels Bohr

  Nature, Science, Thinking

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Science

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• The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Successful, Tests, Accepted

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• I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Believe, Science

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• Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Real, Voice

  Quoted in Ronald W. Clark's Einstein: The Life and Times (p. 340)

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• Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

  Barbara Sher

  Leadership, Leap, Quantum Leap

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.180, Dell

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• We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.

  David Bohm

  Independent, Reality, Usual

  "On the Intuitive Understanding of Nonlocality as Implied by Quantum Theory". Foundations of Physics, Volume 5, 1975.

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• Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.

  Fritjof Capra

  Nature, Block, Science

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• God does not play dice [with the universe].
  [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

  Albert Einstein

  God, Play, Gambling

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