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Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well. -- Roy H. Williams
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two. -- Roy H. Williams
I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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
Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics. -- Michio Kaku
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. -- Niels Bohr
The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding. -- Martin Fleischmann
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not. -- Eugene Wigner
There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut. -- Analeigh Tipton
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined. -- David Bohm
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability. -- Murray Gell-Mann
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things. -- Robert Nozick
If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. -- James Lovelock
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. -- Mona Charen
Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense. -- Roger Penrose
Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics. -- Erwin Schrodinger
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. -- Richard P. Feynman
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. -- Werner Heisenberg
It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness. -- Eugene Wigner
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts. -- Werner Heisenberg
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. -- Stephen Hawking
[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. -- Richard P. Feynman
There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. -- Richard P. Feynman
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively. -- Niels Bohr
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness. -- Eugene Wigner
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice. -- Albert Einstein
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. -- Edward Witten
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. -- Elon Musk
I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics. -- Brian Greene
Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic. -- Brian Greene
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world. -- Alain Aspect
The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work. -- Brian Greene
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. -- Brian Greene
I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can. -- Tanit Phoenix
Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time. -- Richard K. Morgan
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out. -- Edward Witten
Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later. -- Brian Greene
People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science. -- Seth Shostak
I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns. -- Francis Collins
For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. -- Paul Davies
Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
No one really understands quantum mechanics. -- Richard P. Feynman
Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics. -- Paul Dirac
Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it. -- Niels Bohr
If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it. -- Niels Bohr
What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose. -- Terry Pratchett
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it. -- Niels Bohr
I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics. -- Richard P. Feynman
Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same. -- Scott Aaronson
The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics. -- Victor J. Stenger
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance -- Rene Thom
Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics] -- Niels Bohr
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Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition. -- David Gross
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness. -- Eugene Wigner
Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics. -- Victor J. Stenger
When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics -- Victor Frederick Weisskopf
People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics -- Sidney Coleman
[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's. -- Hugh Ross
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women. -- Marisha Pessl
The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus. -- Werner Heisenberg
There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings. -- Lisa Randall
Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics -- Werner Heisenberg
Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works. -- Taner Edis
Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy. -- Daniel M. Greenberger
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Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy. -- Murray Gell-Mann
[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world. -- Hugh Everett III
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At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
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I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems. -- Willis Lamb
Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation. -- David Gross
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. -- Steven Weinberg
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. -- Edward Boyden
It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency. -- John Stewart Bell
Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices. -- Seth Lloyd
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. -- Antony Garrett Lisi
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
A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve. -- Willis Lamb
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. -- Edward Abbey
When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object. -- Jeff Vandermeer
What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum mechanics you are forced to conclude that God exists. -- Frank Tipler
The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I've ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I've spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics. -- Randall Munroe
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Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence. -- Alain Aspect
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. -- Tristan Perich
Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still there was the problem of the interaction of light and matter. -- Richard P. Feynman

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