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• The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature.

  Lee Smolin

  Giving, Words Of Wisdom, Revolution

  Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

  Robert Burns

  Feelings, Hazards, Sin

  'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 6

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• Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

  Yuan T. Lee

  Meaningful, Improvement, Predictions

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• Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

  Neil Turok

  Physics, Hardest, Whole

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• I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.

  Edward Witten

  Black, Fields, Ordinary

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• I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this view, Schrödinger's set-up will give rise to in two future branches of reality, one with a live cat, and one with a dead cat - and the talk of '50% chances' just indicates that the two branches are both equally real futures of the cat that originally entered the box.

  David Papineau

  Real, Cat, Views

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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

  Aaron D. O'Connell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Littles

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• Interference between universes at the quantum level means that information transfer takes place between them.

  James P. Hogan

  Mean, Levels, Information

  James P. Hogan (1997). “Paths to Otherwhere”, Pocket Books

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• I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Ants, World, Physics

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• Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined by local connections, is incompatible with quantum theory... Bells theorem demonstrates that the universe is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, and inseparable.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Blow, Reality

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• 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.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Writing, Done, Facts

  "The Quark and the Jaguar". Book by Murray Gell-Mann, 1994.

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

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Mechanic, Quantum Mechanics, Ifs

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

  Max Planck

  Science, Expression, Law

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Science, Events, Roles

  Wolfgang Pauli (2008). “Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u.a. Band IV, Teil III: 1955–1956. Scientific Correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, a.o. Volume IV, Part III: 1955–1956”, p.148, Springer-Verlag

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• You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Attitude, Believe

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• The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries, made out of molecular "sentences." The universe is like a library in which the words are atoms. Just look at what has been written with these hundred words! Our own bodies are books in that library, specified by the organization of molecules-but the universe and literature are organizations of identical, interchangeable objects; they are information systems.

  Heinz Pagels

  Book, Science, Law

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• The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it has a force of its own. It is not a simple matter to relax; it is one of the most complex phenomena possible, because all that we are taught is tension, anxiety, anguish. Seriousness is the very core the society is built around. Playfulness is for small children, not for grown-up people. And I am teaching you to be children again, to be playful again. It is a quantum leap, a jump...but it takes time to understand.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Teaching, Simple

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• Surrender is the quantum leap from mind to no-mind, from ego to egolessness. And in a single step the whole journey is contained. It is not a long journey from you to God, it is a single-step journey. It is not a gradual phenomenon; it is not that slowly slowly, gradually you come to the divine. It is a quantum leap! One moment you were in darkness and the next moment all is light. All that is needed is to put the ego aside.

  Rajneesh

  Journey, Light, Long

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• It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Sleep, Science, Night

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• Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.

  Gregg Braden

  Lying, Choices Made, Moments

  Gregg Braden (2009). “The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy”, p.10, Harmony

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• It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand which expresses its timeless existence and the appearance of energy in space and time on the other hand correspond to two contradictory (complementary) aspects of reality. In fact, both are always present, but in individual cases the one or the other may be more pronounced.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Reality, Two, Space

  C. G. Jung, Wolfgang Pauli (2014). “Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958”, p.185, Princeton University Press

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• After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Time, Philosophy, Crazy

  "Pride of India". Book by Samskrita Bharati, 2006.

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• It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.

  James P. Hogan

  Thinking, Mystical Experiences, Age

  James P. Hogan (1997). “Paths to Otherwhere”, Pocket Books

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• Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.

  Barbara Brennan

  Past, Discovery, Experience

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