Quantum Quotes

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

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

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

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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