These quantum quotes will inspire you. Quantum is the smallest amount of many forms of energy (such as light) or a required or allowed amount, especially an amount of money legally payable in damages.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging quantum quotes, quantum sayings, and quantum proverbs.
Best Quantum Quotes
- “The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks” ~ Albert Einstein
- “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!” ~ Richard P. Feynman
- “God is subtle but he is not malicious.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.” ~ David Finkelstein
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“Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.” ~ Erwin Schrodinger
- “Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.” ~ Roger Penrose
- “I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.” ~ Richard P. Feynman
- “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” ~ Niels Bohr
- “If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.” ~ Niels Bohr
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“If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.” ~ Erwin Schrodinger
- “Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.” ~ Barbara Sher
- “Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.” ~ Amit Goswami
- “When asked … [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, ‘There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'” ~ Niels Bohr
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“Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.” ~ Lady Gaga
- “Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.” ~ Niels Bohr
- “The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter – but it’s a damn good book anyway.” ~ Richard P. Feynman , Quantum quotes on universe
- “I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it.” ~ Erwin Schrodinger
- “It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.” ~ Niels Bohr
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“If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.” ~ Niels Bohr
- “God does not play dice [with the universe].
[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]” ~ Albert Einstein - “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.” ~ Michio Kaku
- “There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time … On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” ~ Richard P. Feynman
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“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent “elementary parts” of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.” ~ David Bohm
- “I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‘But how can it be like that?’ …Nobody knows how it can be like that.” ~ Richard P. Feynman
- “Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look so easy.” ~ Richard P. Feynman
- “The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton’s formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.” ~ Paul Davies
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“I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles.” ~ John Stewart Bell
- “Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the “Old One.” I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].” ~ Albert Einstein
- “You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there’s no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.” ~ Richard P. Feynman
- “The “paradox” is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality “ought to be.”” ~ Richard P. Feynman
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“I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “There is something else that is trying to come through – that lure of becoming – and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.” ~ Jean Houston
- “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.” ~ Niels Bohr
- “Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated “building blocks,” but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object’s interaction with the observer.” ~ Fritjof Capra
- “At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.” ~ Lawrence M. Krauss
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“In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.” ~ Arjuna Ardagh
- “What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.” ~ Bruce H. Lipton
- “Einstein’s theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum – for small things.” ~ Brian Greene
- “If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.” ~ Murray Gell-Mann
- “I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don’t get me started!) without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn’t enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics?” ~ Tom Lehrer
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“And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.” ~ Niels Bohr
- “Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that’d happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn’t a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time.” ~ Terry Pratchett
- “Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
- “We don’t have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types – in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.” ~ Larry Wall , Quantum quotes computing
- “Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.” ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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“When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.” ~ Richard Gere
- “The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.” ~ Max Planck
- “What if consciousness is the ground of being? What if the possibilities discovered by quantum physics are the possibilities of consciousness itself? Remember there is already a class of people who think in this way. They are called mystics, and they say it is all God. Finally, a few scientists dared to say that some of the characteristics attributed to God are similar to what we describe as consciousness.” ~ Amit Goswami
- “Science may be weird and incomprehensible–more weird and less comprehensible than any theology–but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn, slingshotting you around Venus and Jupiter on the way. We may not understand quantum theory (heaven knows, I don’t), but a theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong.” ~ Richard Dawkins
- “In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.” ~ Timothy Leary
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“Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can’t have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.” ~ Fred Alan Wolf
- “I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I’m talking to you from a deeper basic understanding – quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery, it says that you can’t have a universe without mind entering into it, the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.” ~ Fred Alan Wolf
- “Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.” ~ David Deutsch
- “To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn’t anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.” ~ Fred Alan Wolf
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“DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space-time energy information and matter.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged at the turn of the last century. We are a whole century behind in absorbing the leaps that quantum theory made for the human mind.” ~ Vandana Shiva , Quantum quotes leap
- “The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.” ~ Terence McKenna
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“[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.” ~ Hugh Everett III
- “The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off-chance that it is in another direction – a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory – who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unusual point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.” ~ Richard P. Feynman
- “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.” ~ Huston Smith
