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• This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Determined, Every Second, Can Do

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• I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different. The film makes pretty clear that quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.

  Jennifer Beals

  Spiritual, Teaching, Thinking

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2007.

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• Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.

  John Stewart Bell

  World, Results, Domain

  "Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics". Book by John Stewart Bell, p. 29, 1987.

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• If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Thinking, Dizzy, Becoming

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• Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Affair, Folly, Humans

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• 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

  Islands, Together, Realization

  "The World's Religions". Book by Huston Smith, 1991.

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• Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses.

  Georges Lemaitre

  Doe, Saint, Doctrine

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• The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often

  Murray Gell-Mann

  World, Chaos, Fluctuation

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• If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, 'It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.'

  Phil Plait

  Kids, Eye, Blue

  "Bad Astronomy". Book by Phil Plait, 2002.

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• A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

  Niels Bohr

  Funny, Science, Hearing

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• The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just like a coral.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Reality

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• Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

  Brian Greene

  Motivation, Inspiration, Curves

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• There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

  Marisha Pessl

  Mind, Bending, World

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• The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Fields, Problem, Replacements

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• 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

  Dream, Soup, Courageous

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Philosophical, Mystery, Mathematics

  Victor J. Stenger (2012). “God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion”, p.143, Prometheus Books

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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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• If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Focus, Want

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• Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.

  Anthony Zee

  Needs, Ephemeral, Fields

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• Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates throughout the great bell of creation. And the sound of the ringing propagates instantaneously , everywhere at once, interconnecting all things. This is a truth of our universe. It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness.

  David Zindell

  Reality, Sound, Events

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• Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

  Roy H. Williams

  Science, Economy, Mechanic

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• The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Ideas, Fundamentals, Neutrons

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• There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

  James Dyson

  Persistence, Looks, Ends

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• I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

  Michael Pollan

  Relationship, Mean, World

  "Michael Pollan's 'Botany of Desire'". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. June 28, 2001.

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