Quotes of Quantum - somelinesforyou

“ Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve. ”

- Ecclesiastes

“ God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. ”

- Sir William Bragg

“ Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. ”

- Barbara Sher

“ 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

“ I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family. ”

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

“ I know the tribal issues. I was a congressman where most of the Indians are in this state. The problem is that most of them aren't Indians. The average Cherokee quantum is 1/512. ”

- Tom Coburn

“ But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. ”

- Antonin Artaud

“ Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ 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
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