Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Quotes
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
This quotation was a milestone on scientific and technological development. For the first time in human history the smartest and most creative and visionary people, could not understand or comprehend the direction in which science and technology was moving. It now took people with specialized mathematical capability. Experience and intuitive insight was actually counter-productive in understanding the world as it was being revealed. Intelligence, creativity, perseverance and hard work, for the first time was insufficient. Education and training was the new requirement in addition to the others.
"Entanglement" is where, under certain conditions, one particle's movement can control the movement of another particle far from it with no apparent physical connection between them.
Born was a refugee who escaped to England from Nazi Germany.
One hundred years later, many in America would come to this same conclusion and American manufacturing, to outcompete China and other Oriental cultures, have turned to highly complex, constantly innovative, and technically advanced processes.
This is a classic quotation illustrating that the scientist is rarely sure of anything and is not ever able to make recommendations with the surety of the politician or the cleric.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms. Currently he is still an active researcher, working at the École normale supérieure (Paris).
