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 BohrTags: science reality physics quantum-mechanics
Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy.
Daniel M. GreenbergerTags: science einstein quantum-mechanics
...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
Brian GreeneTags: humor science physics quantum-mechanics
I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?
Werner HeisenbergTags: science nature despair absurd physics quantum-mechanics bohr experiments niels-bohr
A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.
Bill GaedeTags: quantum-mechanics mathematics mathematicians gaede general-relativity mathematical-physics mathematician electromagnetic-wave wave-theory
Which came first — the observer or the particle?
Vanna BontaTags: quotes quantum-mechanics reality-creation quantum-reality
It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
Bill GaedeTags: einstein religion quantum-mechanics mathematics gaede general-relativity
Quantum mechanics. What a repository, a dump, of human aspiration it was, the borderland where mathematical rigor defeated common sense, and reason and fantasy irrationally merged. Here the mystically inclined could find whatever they required and claim science as their proof. And for these ingenious men in their spare time, what ghostly and beautiful music it must be--spectral asymmetry, resonances, entanglement, quantum harmonic oscillators--beguiling ancient airs, the harmony of the spheres that might transmute a lead wall into gold and bring into being the engine that ran on virtually nothing, on virtual particles, that emitted no harm and would power the human enterprise as well as save it. Beard was stirred by the yearnings of these lonely men. And why should he think they were lonely? It was not, or not only, condescension that made him think them so. They did not know enough, but they knew too much to have anyone to talk to. What mate waiting down the pub or in the British Legion, what hard-pressed wife with job and kids and housework, was going to follow them down these warped funnels in the space-time continuum, into the wormhole, the shortcut to a single, final answer to the global problem of energy?
Ian McEwanTags: mysticism quantum-mechanics pseudo-science
There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She started one day
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.
Tags: physics quantum-mechanics arthur-henry-reginald-buller
Margrethe: And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world? Our ruined and dishonoured and beloved world?
Michael FraynTags: quantum-mechanics bohr heisenberg
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