Quotes About Quantum

Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

Universe consists of frozen light.

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments.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

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

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