"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." -- Max Planck, Physicist Nobel winner - Father of Quantum Physics
[I can't accept quantum mechanics because] "I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it."- Albert Einstein
"Nothing happens until something moves" - Albert Einstein
"[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."
- Werner Heisenberg
"Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it." -Niels Bohr
"If that turns out to be true, I'll quit physics." [Max von Laue, Nobel Laureate 1914 Talking about de Broglie's thesis on electrons having wave properties]
"The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment." - Bernard d'Espagnat
"Nobody understands quantum mechanics " - Richard Feynman (1965)
"In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because we are aware of it." - Martin Rees
"Very interesting theory - it makes no sense at all" - Groucho Marx
"Had I known that we were not going to get rid of this damned quantum jumping, I never would have involved myself in this business!"- Erwin Schrödinger
"A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!
- Richard P. Feynman (1965)
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." (A. Einstein)
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research." - Einstein
