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«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.»
«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.»
«If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.»
«Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.»
«If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.»
Author: Niels Bohr (Physicist) | Keywords: giddy, physics, quantum
«Nobody understands quantum theory.»
Author: Richard Feynman | Keywords: quantum
«I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics»
Author: Richard Feynman | Keywords: quantum, safely
«The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks»
«Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice»
«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.»