Quantum Mechanics Quotes

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

  Niels Bohr

  Real, Physics, Quantum

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

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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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• If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Mechanic, Quantum

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• What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Perception, Quantum Physics

  Physics and Philosophy (1958)

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

  Albert Einstein

  Physics, Ends, Quantum

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• If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspiration, Understanding, Quantum Physics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality

  Brian Greene

  Reality, Mind, Tuition

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• It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

  Niels Bohr

  Learning, Thinking, Theoretical Physics

  "The philosophy of Niels Bohr" by Aage Petersen in "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", Volume 19, No. 7 (September 1963), as quoted in Abraham Pais "The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery" (p. 24), 2000, and in Paul McEvoy "Niels Bohr: Reflections on Subject and Object" (p. 291), October 2000.

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• Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

  Niels Bohr

  God

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• [Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Views, Common Sense, Religion

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• [T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Real, Atoms, World

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• Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum
  mechanics.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mechanic, Entanglement, Characteristics

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• The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Trust, Truth, Ocean

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.117, Open Road Media

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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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• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

  Roger Penrose

  Physics, Mechanic, Quantum

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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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• There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

  Niels Bohr

  Laughter, Laughing, Serious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Atoms, Language

  Niels Bohr's response to questions on the nature of language during his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg (Summer 1920), as quoted in "Discussions about Language", 1933, in Robert J. Pranger "Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy" (p. 11), 1972, and in Steve Giles "Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory" (p. 28), 1993.

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• ...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

  Gary Zukav

  Science, Study, Consciousness

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Space, Matter

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• It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

  Eugene Wigner

  Law, Way, Consciousness

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.248, Springer Science & Business Media

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• How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

  Niels Bohr

  Thinking, Progress, Physics

  "Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, and the World They Changed". Book by Ruth Moore, 1966.

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