Quantum Mechanics Quotes

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.

I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

No one really understands quantum mechanics.

Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown.

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

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

There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex theory of math can be built up from very basic parts.

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

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.

Which came first — the observer or the particle?

More than ninety-five percent of your brain activity, as you consciously read this sentence, is being used by your subconscious mind.

There are just some things that are outside of comprehension, even if we can quantify them. At some point, science becomes magic.

Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism.

The subconscious mind is the guiding force for your entire life.

To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.

The subconscious mind is shielding or showing numerous potential paths, based on what it determines would represent a consistent reality for you.

To access your subconscious, is to access your 'higher-self.

The subconscious mind is aware of the many worlds unfolding in each moment.

There are many, many, many worlds branching out at each moment you become aware of your environment and then make a choice.

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.

To strengthen the connection between your conscious and subconscious, is to gain access to a map and compass, as you travel through parallel worlds.

The particles that are the very building blocks of all things, are in all possible locations until observation/measurement causes them to choose a specific position.

All perception is the result of electrical impulses in the brain - the world of the individual is tantamount to a highly advanced computer running and analyzing programs in its working memory.

Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy.

If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . .

The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!

What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God.

You are the individual and the entire Universe.

Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.