Quantum Physics

🇺🇸Nicolaas Bloembergen

Science

1920–2017

"Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility."

🇩🇪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."

🇺🇸Edwin Thompson Jaynes

Education

1922–1998

"It appears to be a quite general principle that, whenever there is a randomized way of doing something, then there is a nonrandomized way that delivers better performance but requires more thought."

🇬🇧John Stewart Bell

Science

1928–1990

"The orthodox approaches, whether the authors think they have made derivations or assumptions, are just fine FAPP — when used with the good taste and discretion picked up from exposure to good examples."

🇺🇸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."

🇦🇹Anton Zeilinger

Science

b. 1945

"I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet."

🇧🇷David Bohm

Science

1917–1992

"What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning."

🇫🇷Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Science

b. 1933

"Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture."

🇺🇸Otto Stern

Science

1925–1945

"Shall we do it?" "Well, then let's go, we shall do it!" Otto Stern asking, Walther Gerlach answering."