Top 931 Quantum Mechanics Quotes & Sayings

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

Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric.

Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.

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

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

In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue is that the kinds of things you predict in quantum mechanics are different from the kinds of things you predict using general relativity. Quantum mechanics, that big, new, spectacular remarkable idea is that you only predict probabilities, the likelihood of one outcome or another. That's the new idea.

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.

As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject.

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

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

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

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.

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

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.

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to thinking about Einstein and the quantum. What he finds and makes broadly understandable are the riches of Einstein's thinking not about relativity, not about his arguments with Bohr, but about Einstein's deep insights into the quantum world, insights that Stone shows speak to us now with all the vividness and depth they had a century ago. This is a fascinating book, lively, engaging, and strong in physical intuition.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

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.

'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?

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.

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

I've been very involved in this quantum holographic formalism and helping to explore it as explanatory of the very root of our perceptual capabilities. It is postulated, for example, that this very basic entanglement, at the quantum level, at the level of subatomic matter, is really a part of quantum mechanics.

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.

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.

If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?

While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more reasonable to try to establish a theoretical quantum mechanics, analogous to classical mechanics, but in which only relations between observable quantities occur.

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.

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics.

Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.

I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.

It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just that.

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in another place] at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make some weird lemonade from this?

This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum mechanics, and consciousness. It has long been suspected that these mysteries are somehow related: the authors’ treatment of this thorny and controversial issue is honest, wide-ranging, and immensely readable. The book contains some of the clearest expositions I have ever seen of the strange and paradoxical nature of the quantum world. Quantum Enigma is a pleasure to read, and I am sure it is destined to become a classic.

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

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.

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.

What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

No one really understands quantum mechanics.

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

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

Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn’t have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.

In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.