Quantum Mechanics Quotes - Page 4

• When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Thinking, Smartphones, Dumb

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• Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.

  Paul Dirac

  Chemistry, Physics, Mechanic

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• A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to thinking about Einstein and the quantum. What he finds and makes broadly understandable are the riches of Einstein's thinking not about relativity, not about his arguments with Bohr, but about Einstein's deep insights into the quantum world, insights that Stone shows speak to us now with all the vividness and depth they had a century ago. This is a fascinating book, lively, engaging, and strong in physical intuition.

  Peter Galison

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some difficulties, and to be criticized in rational terms. (Bohr's complementarity cannot be so criticized, I fear; it can only be accepted or denounced - perhaps as being ad hoc, or as being irrational, or as being hopelessly vague.)

  Karl Popper

  Science, Views, Ease

  Karl Popper, W.W. Bartley, III (2013). “Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics: From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.103, Routledge

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• Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.

  Scott Aaronson

  Confusing, Consciousness, Mechanic

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• I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.

  Willis Lamb

  Numbers, Interesting, Problem

  "Super classical quantum mechanics: the best interpretation of non relativistic quantum mechanics". American Journal of Physics 69, p. 413-422, 2001.

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• People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

  Sidney Coleman

  Thinking, People, Confusion

  "Quantum Mechanics in Your Face". Lecture at the New England sectional meeting of the American Physical Society, April 9, 1994.

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• Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Mean, Religion, Doe

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• You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it?

  Leonard Susskind

  Space, Devil, Quantum

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• The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation.

  Paul Dirac

  Law, Too Much, Chemistry

  Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1995). “Sammlung”, p.391, Cambridge University Press

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• It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

  Max Born

  Science, Skills, Littles

  "Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance" by Max Born, (p. 2), 1964.

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• Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Jobs, Science, Thinking

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• Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Mechanic, Quantum

  Werner Heisenberg (1984). “Gesammelte Werke”

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• But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Views, Subjectivity, Kind

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• Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in the New Lecture Hall. And when he was done, Professor Whitehead, who presided, thanked him for his efforts, and not least for 'leaving the vast darkness of the subject unobscured'.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Appreciation, Effort, Leaving

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (1947). “Physics in the Contemporary World”

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• According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

  Brian Greene

  Sky, Space, Age

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.308, Vintage

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• 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

  Roles, Complicated, Mechanic

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• The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

  Sidney Hook

  Science, Differences, Wish

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• From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it will only be possible to write the conclusion if a theory will be established which will determine the value of the fine structure constant and will thus explain the atomistic structure of electricity, which is such an essential quality of all atomic sources of electric fields actually occurring in nature.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Believe, Writing, Views

  "Writings on Physics and Philosophy".

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• 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

  Dark, Night, May

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet the data seemed to demand it. ... The story of Werner Heisenberg and his science is the story of the desperate failures and ultimate triumphs of the small band of brilliant physicists who-during an incredibly intense period of struggle with the data, the theories, and each other during the 1920s-brought about a revolutionary new understanding of the atomic world known as quantum mechanics.

  David C. Cassidy

  Nature, Struggle, Science

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

  Niels Bohr

  Confused, Science, Mechanic

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• Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

  Elon Musk

  Physics, Mechanic, Quantum

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

  Brian Greene

  Jobs, Doe, Fantastic

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• For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Reality, Events, Doe

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