#quantum

Know the world from end to end is a mirror; in each atom a hundred suns are concealed. If you pierce the heart of a single drop of water, from it will flow a hundred clear oceans; if you look intently at each speck of dust, in it you will see a thousand beings. A gnat in its limbs is like an elephant; in name a drop of water resembles the Nile. In the heart of a barleycorn is stored a hundred harvests. Within a millet-seed a world exists. In an insects wing is an ocean of life. A heaven is concealed in the pupil of an eye. The core at the center of the heart is small, yet the Lord of both worlds will enter there. ↗

— Mahmud Shabistari

#quantum #life

If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse. ↗

— Zane Stumpo

#douglas-adams #humour #multiverse #parallel-universe #quantum

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency. ↗

— John S. Bell

#believe #counter #currently #difficult #efficiency

Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not? ↗

— John Cleese

#been #believe #days #i #i do

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#believe #brave #coming #considerably #continue

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#quantum-physics #identity

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#complete #current #did #imaginations #mechanics

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

— Niels Bohr

#physics #quantum #reality #science #strange

Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy. ↗

— Daniel M. Greenberger

#quantum-mechanics #science #science

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#quantum-physics #schrodinger-s-cat #wisdom #acting