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• Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

  Barbara Sher

  Jobs, Swimming, Thinking

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• I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.

  Edward Witten

  Black, Fields, Ordinary

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• The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... They have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.

  David Albert

  Should Have, Doe, Stories

  "On the Origin of Everything". www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2012.

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• Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

  Yuan T. Lee

  Meaningful, Improvement, Predictions

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• I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

  Robert Burns

  Feelings, Hazards, Sin

  'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 6

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• This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum mechanics, and consciousness. It has long been suspected that these mysteries are somehow related: the authors’ treatment of this thorny and controversial issue is honest, wide-ranging, and immensely readable. The book contains some of the clearest expositions I have ever seen of the strange and paradoxical nature of the quantum world. Quantum Enigma is a pleasure to read, and I am sure it is destined to become a classic.

  George Greenstein

  Book, Unique, Two

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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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• The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature.

  Lee Smolin

  Giving, Words Of Wisdom, Revolution

  Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell us, as Aristotle and Newton did before, what space and time are, what the cosmos is, what things are made of, and what kind of laws those things obey. Such a theory will bring about a radical shift - a revolution - in our understanding of what nature is. It must also have wide repercussions, and will likely bring about, or contribute to, a shift in our understanding of ourselves and our relationship to the rest of the universe.

  Lee Smolin

  Successful, Law, Space

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• When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Learning, Persistence, Simple

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• Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not
  simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some
  sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can
  understand.

  John Polkinghorne

  World, Structure, Subtle

  "Divine Action". Interview with Lyndon F. Harris, "Cross Currents", Volume 48, Issue 1, www.aril.org. Spring 1998.

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• When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Discovery, Trying, Research

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• I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

  Peter Garrett

  Believe, Talking, Years

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

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• I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that.

  Tila Tequila

  Sexy, Thinking, Watches

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• Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we are indeed not alone, what could cause a new Copernican revolution, a quantum leap in our thinking and perspective. We would finally realize that we are one mankind and all the small differences which separate humans from each other today-nationality, race, religion-would disappear. Only together can mankind explore the universe, our true home and destiny.

  Michael Hesemann

  Home, Destiny, Thinking

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• ‎By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.

  Michio Kaku

  Destiny, Magic, Tools

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Jun 17, 2016

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• But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require a cause. And even if they did, why would the Prime Mover need to be a supernatural anthropomorphic deity such as the Judeo - Christian God? Why could it not just as well be the material universe itself?

  Victor J. Stenger

  Christian, Religion, Doe

  Victor J. Stenger (1990). “Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses”

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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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• Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.

  Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker

  Science, Physics, Theory

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• Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.

  George Johnson

  Science, Hands, Boxing

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• When we cannot look around and explain anything we are the quantum world.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Looks, World

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• The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Independent, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.297, Vintage

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• Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

  Niels Bohr

  Mechanic, Subjects, Shocked

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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, Framework

  Werner Heisenberg (1984). “Gesammelte Werke”

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