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Quotes About Potentia

He has the special quality of virginity, most and least ambiguous of states: ignorance, yet at the same time, power in potentia, and, furthermore, unknowingness, which is not the same as ignorance.
~ Angela Carter
El budismo tibetano denomina "Rigpa" al reino de lo cuántico en potencia, a la conciencia única autorreferencial.
~ Dr. Jacobo Grinberg Zylberbaum
He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
The probability wave] meant a tendency for something. It was a quantitative version of the old concept of potentia in Aristoelian philosophy. It introduced something standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.
~ Werner Heisenberg