“Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in another place] at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make some weird lemonade from this?” BelieveLife IsPiecesStrangeFundamentalsQuantumMechanicQuantum MechanicsLemonsLemonade Author:Seth Lloyd
“Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn’t have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.” IfsProblemWould BePerfectIssuesFundamentalsGravityQuantumMechanicQuantum MechanicsVery Deep Author:Gerard 't Hooft
“The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.” IdeasDifficultyFundamentalsPhysicsQuantumMechanicQuantum PhysicsQuantum MechanicsNucleusNeutrons Author:Werner Heisenberg
“In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.” KnowsImaginationLeaderFieldsComputerAreasExcitingFundamentalsPhysicsValleysQuantumSoarBeltsExhaustingBasicsRustSiliconReplacementsSilicon ValleyGreat Imagination Author:Michio Kaku
“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.” WorldWholeRealityFormUniverseParticularIndependentFundamentalsNotionVariousUsualQuantumArrangementsInseparableInterconnectedness Author:David Bohm
“Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as the passage from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. When you get a number turning out to be infinite which ought to be finite, you should admit that there is something wrong with your equations, and not hope that you can get a good theory just by doctoring up that number.” ShouldIdeasNumbersTheoryOughtInfiniteFundamentalsGapsPassagesQuantumMechanicFiniteEquationsProceduresQuantum MechanicsOrbitDoctoring Author:Paul Dirac
“Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.” KnowsDoeChristianReligionLevelsFundamentalsHave FaithQuantumWeirdnessAka Author:Peter Boghossian
“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.” IfsWayGivingLooksUniverseFundamentalsAlternativesBehaveQuantumProbabilityMechanicQuantum Mechanics Author:Murray Gell-Mann
“It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics.” FactsLawScienceRolesHard WorkTheoryDiscoveryBasesOriginalsFundamentalsRemarkableQuantumSpontaneousScopeEmissionsQuantum TheoryHistory Of ScienceThermodynamics Author:Ilya Prigogine
“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.” WorldWayTryingBelieveWellsDoePlayGodLawScienceOrderGamesBeliefExistenceAttitudeDoubtTheoryConsequenceFundamentalsNo DoubtCaptureQuantumColleaguesInitialsLaw And OrderDiceQuantum TheorySenility Author:Albert Einstein
“I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.” ThinkingGivingIdeasMatterPhilosophyFeelingsAgeScienceFoundUnderstandingSpaceKnowledgeProgressTaughtTheoryConceptsAccountsGive MeMethodFundamentalsPhilosopherDeeperConvincedPhysicsSubstanceSteadyQuantumTime And SpaceTheoreticalRelativityTaught UsIlluminatingQuantum TheoryCausalityKnowledge And UnderstandingTheoretical PhysicsSteady Progress Author:Max Born