Seth Lloyd Quotes

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

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.

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

Quantum physics is teaching us that particles themselves don't create particles. It's what Jesus said 2,000 years ago, that it's the Spirit that gives life and that you don't get particles from more particles.

When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly because I wanted to understand them. The study of quantum physics helped me to have a deeper understanding of the Secret, on an energetic level.

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us.

All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it.

We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe.

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

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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

Every force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy of different states of energy, or different states of force fields.

When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.