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

  Elon Musk

  Physics, Mechanic, New Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Space, Fields, Physics

  "Can I Eat That?" with David Pogue, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2012.

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• The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Hands, Years, Able

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• The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

  William Shatner

  May, Facts, Physics

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• Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Use, Appreciated

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• The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical kind. To give an example: we know that the radium atom emits alpha-radiation. Quantum theory can give us an indication of the probability that the alpha-particle will leave the nucleus in unit time, but it cannot predict at what precise point in time the emission will occur, for this is uncertain in principle.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Incomplete Knowledge, Law

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• The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Nature, Book, Science

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet reception?' Well, in some sense, yeah. ... All the wonders of quantum physics were learned basically from looking at atom-smasher technology. ... But let me let you in on a secret: We physicists are not driven to do this because of better color television. ... That's a spin-off. We do this because we want to understand our role and our place in the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Technology, Discovery, Color

  "Discovery of Doom? Collider Stirs Debate" by Alan Boyle, September 8, 2008.

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• In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of "whole numbers" no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Believe, Communication, Science

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• Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I see it for what it is (raw and uncomfortable and saddening), when I refuse to sugar-coat self criticism, judgment, agitation, and constantly trying to improve myself, then I'm one quantum leap closer to freedom.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Inspiring, Journey, Self

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• I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

  Michael Pollan

  Relationship, Mean, World

  "Michael Pollan's 'Botany of Desire'". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. June 28, 2001.

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• Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses.

  Georges Lemaitre

  Doe, Saint, Doctrine

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• 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?

  Leonard Susskind

  Space, Devil, Vibrate

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• The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

  Robert Nozick

  Imagination, Philosopher, Surprise

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

  Neil Turok

  World, Digital, Analog

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• Unconsciously transmitting ideas to the other MC way back when............,,,..#quantum

  Madonna Ciccone

  Ideas, Back When, Way

  "Is That Madonna Or Miley Cyrus In This Throwback Photo?" by John Walker, www.mtv.com. October 13, 2014.

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• Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.

  Kip Thorne

  Years, Law, Understanding

  "Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

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• The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Creating

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• Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Writing, Learning, Science

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• I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Swans, Space

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6729, Delphi Classics

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• [When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Thinking, Path

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• I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains They could be staring us in the face and we just Don't recognise them. The problem is that we-re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology.

  Martin Rees

  Technology, Reality, Moon

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• I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.

  Stanley Clarke

  Thinking, Views, Bass

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• Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's the definition of manliness - that it's not a performance; it's being yourself, authentic. Whereas women have understood gender as performance. Men have not yet made that quantum leap, or rather they're making it in many ways, they're not thinking about it.

  Stephen Marche

  Being Yourself, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Werner Heisenberg

  Ideas, Fundamentals, Neutrons

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