Paul Auster Quotes

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.

There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.

[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.

The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.

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.

When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.

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

Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

No one really understands quantum mechanics.

If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

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

If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

Spooky action at a distance.

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potential

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.