Quotes and Sayings about Quantum Mechanics

Quantum physics makes me so happy. It's like looking at the universe naked.

This physicist goes into an ice cream parlor every week and orders an ice cream sundae for himself, and then offers one to the empty stool sitting next to him. This goes on for a while until the owner finally asks him what he's doing. The man says, "Well, I'm a physicist, and quantum mechanics teaches us, that it is possible for the matter above this stool to spontaneously turn into a beautiful woman who might accept my offer and fall in love with me." The owner then says, "Lots of single, beautiful women come in here ever day. Buy an ice cream for one of them, and they might fall in love with you." And the physicist says, "Yeah, but what are the odds of that happening?!"

Spent all these years to find out about the quantum realm and I found out that I know nothing.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ‘ought to be'

If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not understand it.

I do not like it, and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

If it is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

Sheldon: "Hey, look, I found my missing neutrino."
Howard: "Oh good, we can take it off the milk carton..."

Physics answers the question, "What is the nature of the universe?" Geology answers the question, "What'd I just trip over?"

Physics is the attempt of humanity to understand the world. However it is a real good attempt.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

I need physics more than friends.

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

That's the great thing about California, you can almost go to the mountains and almost go to the beach on the same day.

Marty: "Thanks for going to outer space, so no matter what I do, my mum will be disappointed in me."
Howard: "Well, I married a little catholic girl, so we're even."

The present is the only thing that has no end.

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

Leonard: "For God's sake, Sheldon, do I have to... hold up a sarcasm sign every time I open my mouth?"
Sheldon: "You have a sarcasm sign?"

Penny: "You know, it's a Cheesecake Factory... people order cheesecake and I bring it to them."
Leonard: "So you kind of act as like a carbohydrate delivery system?"
Penny: "Yeah, call it whatever you want, I get minimum wage."

Everything existing in the Universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Hope: "I went from despising you to almost liking you."
Scott: "You really should write poetry."

For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Leonard: "I can't believe you've never seen 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'."
Penny: "And I can't believe you've never read 'Eat, Pray, Love'."
Leonard: "When she comes out with 'Eat, Pray, Run away from a giant boulder', I'll read it."

Leonard: "You owe me another two dollars, the price of moo shu pork went up."
Howard: "It's getting tougher and tougher to be a bad Jew."