Quantum Mechanics

Karl Popper

Philosophy

liberalism

1902–1994

"A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper by Martin Gardner"

🇺🇸Hugh Everett

Science

1930–1982

"Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories."

🇩🇪Detlef Dürr

Philosophy

1951–2021

"It is widely believed that in our quantum world physical facts about occurrences in space time must be grounded in the wave function. There are several long recognized and much discussed difficulties with this view."

🇦🇹Wolfgang Pauli

Science

1900–1958

"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."

🇺🇸Léon Brillouin

Science

1889–1969

"Both the uncertainty principle and the negentropy principle of information make Laplace's scheme completely unrealistic. The problem is an artificial one; it belongs to imaginative poetry, not to experimental science."

🇺🇸Victor J. Stenger

Philosophy

atheism

1935–2014

"Audio of interview with Stenger on the podcast/radio show "Freethought" by the Freedom From Religion Foundation."

🇺🇸Leonard Mlodinow

Mathematics

b. 1954

"The theory of randomness is fundamentally a codification of common sense."

🇬🇧Jim Al-Khalili

Science

b. 1962

"All scientists must communicate their work, for what is the point of learning new things about how the world works if you don't tell anyone about them?"

Hermann Weyl

Mathematics

1885–1955

"Symmetry is a vast subject, significant in art and nature. Mathematics lies at its root, and it would be hard to find a better one on which to demonstrate the working of the mathematical intellect."

"It is far easier to learn science first and philosophy later than the other way round!"

"In spite of the impressive success of quantum mechanics in describing atomic physics, it was immediately clear after its formulation that its relativistic extension was not free of difficulties."