Quantum Quotes

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.

Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.

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.

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

We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often

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

No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

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

[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.

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!

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

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

The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.

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

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics

The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought!

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

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

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

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.

I am fascinated by quantum physics.

There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?

The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence.