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• Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.

  Terence McKenna

  Block, Meat, Pounds

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• There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are no specifically Hindu or Taoist designs for mobile phones, faxes or televisions. There are no satellites based on feminist alternatives to quantum theory. Even that great public sceptic about the value of science, Prince Charles, never flies a helicopter burning homeopathically diluted petrol, that is, water with only a memory of benzine molecules, maintained by a schedule derived from reading tea leaves, and navigated by a crystal ball.

  Simon Blackburn

  Memories, Reading, Tea Leaves

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• All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Believe, Discipline, Confusing

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• Within hours, tweetted piece of information you've just doled out has become a monsoon, a hurricane of tangible energy that is literally circulating the world. It's helped me sense the undeniable truth of quantum consciousness, the whole butterfly effect. I witness it daily. Being witness to it not only makes me come alive, it enables me to maintain hope.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Butterfly, Pieces, Alive

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• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Ideas, Two, Numbers

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• Quantum physics is teaching us that particles themselves don't create particles. It's what Jesus said 2,000 years ago, that it's the Spirit that gives life and that you don't get particles from more particles.

  Wayne Dyer

  Jesus, Teaching, Years

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

  Brandon Boyd

  Girl, Bars, Want

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• Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?

  John Cleese

  Believe, Bags, Why Not

  "'Ross and Brand were astoundingly tasteless'". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.

  Fritjof Capra

  Responsibility, Science, Issues

  "The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1983.

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• The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.

  Niels Bohr

  Space, Unions, Causality

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• I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Atheist, Believe, People

  Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

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

  Brian Greene

  Our World, Physics, Mechanic

  Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There's Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn't have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed by our genes, and unfixed by salient causes in our environment.

  Daniel Dennett

  Stars, Luck, Important

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• In case you haven't noticed, they're moving a lot faster. I don't know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can't catch up to one running at starclass. But if you know something about turbines, thrusters and engines, quantum or classical physics that I've somehow missed, then please enlighten me. - Caillen Dagan to Desideria Denarii

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Moving, Law

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• I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

  Ian Fleming

  Kindness, Men, Thinking

  Ian Fleming (2012). “For Your Eyes Only”, Vintage Digital

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• 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.

  Deepak Chopra

  Brain, Levels, Winking

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• All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

  Mitch Horowitz

  Believe, Law, Taught

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Henceforth, whilst there are a great many theories and models proposed as to how, or why, magic works (based on subtle energies, animal magnetism, psychological concepts, quantum theory, mathematics or the so-called anthropomorphic principle) it is not a case that one of them is more 'true' than others, but a case of which theory or model you choose to believe in, or which theory you find most attractive. Indeed, from a Chaos Magic perspective, you can selectively believe that a particular theory or model of magical action is true only for the duration of a particular ritual or phase of work.

  Phil Hine

  Believe, Animal, Perspective

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• Quantum physics - the idea that there is more than one reality going on at the same time in the same place. We live in a concentric society, and we'll have to make our decisions, cake as pie, as pending resolve. It's really and truly - I don't know if "as" will count any longer.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Reality, Pie, Cake

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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• Don't look at prayer as me asking God to give me something, like some type of cosmic bell captain, look at prayer as my communication with the quantum intelligence, the divine intelligence that we have out there and that is how things are manifested.

  John Assaraf

  Prayer, Communication, Giving

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• It is all about love. It is all about caring. We are all in this game together, we are all connected. You may not be able to see it with your eyes but if you go to the Quantum Universe, some of the physics of nature, we are all connected.

  John Assaraf

  Eye, Caring, Games

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

  Vandana Shiva

  Foundation, Problem, Masters

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through relationships and processes. They are not inherent in electrons or photons or quanta any more than they are inherent in soil or trees or people. So my critique of reductionistic science is a critique that I have inherited from my scientific training. But it has been deepened by my experiences as an ecologist, in seeing the ecological destruction taking place today.

  Vandana Shiva

  Ideas, People, Tree

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I'm really fascinated by the parallels between quantum theory and the teachings of some of these ancient texts. So many of the things that quantum physicists are talking about today, like non-locality and the observer effect, are things the yogis have been saying for thousands of years.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Teaching, Talking, Years

  "Beryl Bender Birch: Abhyasa and Avoiding Flying Tomatoes". Interview with Andrea Marcum, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

  Peter Boghossian

  Christian, Aka, Religion

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