#quantum

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#believe #brave #coming #considerably #continue

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#quantum-physics #identity

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#complete #current #did #imaginations #mechanics

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#another #became #consequence #during #efforts

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. ↗

— Max Planck

#intelligence

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#physics #quantum #reality #science #strange

Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy. ↗

— Daniel M. Greenberger

#quantum-mechanics #science #science

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#einstein #general #general relativity #mechanics #only

After Elsa’s death, Einstein established a routine that as the years passed varied less and less. Breakfast between 9 and 10 was followed by a walk to the institute. After working until 1pm he would return home for lunch and a nap. Afterwards he would work in his study until dinner between 6.30 and 7pm. If not entertaining guests, he would return to work until he went to bed between 11 and 12. He rarely went to the theatre or to a concert, and unlike Bohr, hardly ever watched a movie. He was, Einstein said in 1936, ‘living in the kind of solitude that is painful in one’s youth but in one’s more mature years is delicious’. ↗

— Manjit Kumar

#einstein #quantum #death

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ago #around #billions #caused #collapsing