Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
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Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"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."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything."
Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
"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"
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"The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer."
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"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!"
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"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"
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"The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive."
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"The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves."
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"If you look at anything physical, you find out that at the quantum level, it is non-physical."
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"I'm fascinated with quantum physics."
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"No one really understands quantum mechanics."
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"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."
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