Evangeline Lilly Quotes

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that.

I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

Spooky action at a distance.

I'm just interested in science, and I try to keep track of what's going on and get my head around it - inflation, the multiverse, whatever. It's very hard for me because I don't have a scientific background, and I wasn't any good at science at school, but all of that stuff I just find incredibly attractive and fascinating.

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

No one really understands quantum mechanics.

What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

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

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

We look at the human body as a biochemical machine controlled by genes and therefore we see a mechanical aspect to life and then try to understand the nature of mechanics by looking at how the physical parts interact with each other. If you want to understand life you just look at it as a whole series of interactive chemical reactions. What we are leaving out is the invisible elements, the contributions of the invisible world, which are emphasized in the nature of quantum mechanics. Matter is energy and is a primary factor that must be considered because everything is ultimately energy.

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing I can remember learning is that a parallel universe can theoretically be contained on the head of a needle. I don't really know what that means, but I am now more careful handling needles.

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.