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The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry. -- Brandon Boyd
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. -- Erwin Schrodinger
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct. -- Michio Kaku
The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks -- Albert Einstein
There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. -- Albert Einstein
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing. -- Peter Higgs
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. -- Niels Bohr
If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory. -- Erwin Schrodinger
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece. -- Kip Thorne
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything. -- George Bernard Shaw
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. -- Isidor Isaac Rabi
In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve. -- Arthur Eddington
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. -- Antonin Artaud
I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen]. -- Albert Einstein
Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined by local connections, is incompatible with quantum theory... Bells theorem demonstrates that the universe is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, and inseparable. -- Fritjof Capra
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation, the only one that is tenable, of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality. -- David Deutsch
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
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy-and that's a big "IF"-then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory. -- Michio Kaku
The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof. -- David Bohm
Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn, slingshotting you around Venus and Jupiter on the way. We may not understand quantum theory (heaven knows, I don't), but a theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong. -- Richard Dawkins
Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication. -- Gary Zukav
For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life. -- Jenny Diski
No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent. -- John Stewart Bell
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. -- Albert Einstein
A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said. -- Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago. -- Murray Gell-Mann
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it. -- Niels Bohr
Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics. -- Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday -- William Bragg, Sr.
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. -- William Lawrence Bragg
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. -- Erwin Schrodinger
I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma. -- Augusten Burroughs
There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself. -- Lee Smolin
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger. -- David Deutsch
The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature. -- Lee Smolin
In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory... -- Erwin Schrodinger
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then. -- Erwin Schrodinger
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Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Therefore, Eastern mystics must have been talking about quantum theory all along. -- Richard Dawkins
My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged at the turn of the last century. We are a whole century behind in absorbing the leaps that quantum theory made for the human mind. -- Vandana Shiva
I'm really fascinated by the parallels between quantum theory and the teachings of some of these ancient texts. So many of the things that quantum physicists are talking about today, like nonlocality and the observer effect, are things the yogis have been saying for thousands of years. -- Beryl Bender Birch
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or the concept of pi. The idea of self- ownership is the equivalent of Pythagoras' theorem, of evolution by natural selection, of general relativity, and of quantum theory. Before humankind discovered any of these, it suffered, to varying degrees, in misery and ignorance. -- L. Neil Smith
The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding. -- Martin Fleischmann
I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked. -- David Gross
I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics. -- Brian Greene
I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory. -- James Gleick
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking. -- Nathan Myhrvold
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 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
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change. -- Edward Witten
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
Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased. -- Lee Smolin
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables. -- Werner Heisenberg
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes. -- Edward Witten
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 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
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. -- John Polkinghorne
The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news. -- Leonard Susskind
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense. -- Brian Greene
When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's theory to the very limits where quantum effects must dominate. That's telling us that you really need a theory of everything to resolve this question. And the only candidate is string theory. -- Michio Kaku
Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life. -- Anthony Zee
If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed. -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women. -- Marisha Pessl
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists. -- David Finkelstein
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture. -- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
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

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