Quantum Quotes

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

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

I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles.

If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

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.

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state.

You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it?

You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

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

Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.

Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

Quantum physics shows us the universe as a dynamic web of connection.

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

Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?

For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.

Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.

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

Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

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.

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

There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.

If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it

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.

A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.

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.

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

No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

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