Quantum Quotes - Page 12

• Everyone and everything that shows up in the world of form in this universe originates not from a particle, as quantum physics teaches us, but from an energy field.

  Wayne Dyer

  Energy, World, Fields

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Airplane, Men, Discovery

  14 Copy quote

• Surrender is the quantum leap from mind to no-mind, from ego to egolessness. And in a single step the whole journey is contained. It is not a long journey from you to God, it is a single-step journey. It is not a gradual phenomenon; it is not that slowly slowly, gradually you come to the divine. It is a quantum leap! One moment you were in darkness and the next moment all is light. All that is needed is to put the ego aside.

  Rajneesh

  Journey, Light, Long

  4 Copy quote

• Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potential

  Deepak Chopra

  Cells, Space, Fields

  8 Copy quote

• Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined by local connections, is incompatible with quantum theory... Bells theorem demonstrates that the universe is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, and inseparable.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Blow, Reality

  28 Copy quote

• The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it has a force of its own. It is not a simple matter to relax; it is one of the most complex phenomena possible, because all that we are taught is tension, anxiety, anguish. Seriousness is the very core the society is built around. Playfulness is for small children, not for grown-up people. And I am teaching you to be children again, to be playful again. It is a quantum leap, a jump...but it takes time to understand.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Teaching, Simple

  7 Copy quote

• The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries, made out of molecular "sentences." The universe is like a library in which the words are atoms. Just look at what has been written with these hundred words! Our own bodies are books in that library, specified by the organization of molecules-but the universe and literature are organizations of identical, interchangeable objects; they are information systems.

  Heinz Pagels

  Book, Science, Law

  7 Copy quote

• It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics.

  Ilya Prigogine

  Hard Work, Science, Discovery

  "Time, Structure and Fluctuations". Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or that simultaneous position and momentum have no meaning, but in the insight that we had not been using our minds properly and that it is important to find out how to do so.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Lying, Moving, Science

  8 Copy quote

• I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Humble, Son, Mechanic

  "Lives less ordinary" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow when you grow up... profound curiosity happens when children are young. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race... Once you are sophisticated, you know too much- far too much. Pauli once said to me, "I know a great deal. I know too much. I am a quantum ancient.".

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Growing Up, Children, Thinking

  11 Copy quote

• Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

  Michael Crichton

  Technology, Reality, Ordinary

  "Crichton goes out of time to send off old millennium" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. November 10, 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." In other words, if there isn't a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a physical possibility. (The reason for this is the uncertainty principle. Unless something is forbidden, quantum effects and fluctuations will eventually make it possible if we wait long enough. Thus, unless there is a law forbidding it, it will eventually occur.)

  Michio Kaku

  Kings, Science, Epic

  11 Copy quote

• This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it: be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed... The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Cancer, Cutting, Cells

  38 Copy quote

• 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

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Energy, Mutation, Variation

  "What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1944.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Waiting, Body, Lasts

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Evil, Republic, May

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Time, Philosophy, Crazy

  "Pride of India". Book by Samskrita Bharati, 2006.

  140 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Favors, Motive

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.110

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger.

  David Deutsch

  Suggestions, May, Cynicism

  4 Copy quote

• I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

  Albert Einstein

  Ostriches, Order, Evil

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

  Seth Lloyd

  Ongoing, Computer, Computation

  9 Copy quote