Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Anton Zeilinger

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Anton Zeilinger is an Austrian quantum physicist who in 2008 received the Inaugural Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics (UK) for "his pioneering conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, which have become the cornerstone for the rapidly-evolving field of quantum information". Zeilinger is professor of physics at the University of Vienna and Senior Scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information IQOQI at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Most of his research concerns the fundamental aspects and applications of quantum entanglement.

Austrian - Physicist | Born: May 20, 1945

Source: Wikipedia

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

Anton Zeilinger

Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.

Anton Zeilinger

It was easy in the early nineties to make a list of great things that could be done, now that there was such a convenient source of entangled pairs. Anton's claim to fame is that he went and did them.

Anton Zeilinger

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

Anton Zeilinger

I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

Anton Zeilinger