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"Things are
as they are because, we are" - Anthropic
Principle
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"I do not like it, and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it."
- Erwin Schrödinger (about quantum
mechanics)
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"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood
it"- Niels Bohr
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A policeman pulls Werner Heisenberg over on the autobahn for speeding.
Policeman: "Sir, do you know how fast you were going ?"
Heisenberg: "No, but I know exactly where I am."
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"I don't like
electrons; they've always had a negative influence on society."
— Chris Lipe
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"— I think I lost an electron.
— Are you sure ?
— Yeah, I'm positive."
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"I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost..."
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"Quantum Mechanics: The stuff dreams are made of." —
Stephen Wright
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"Now we are all sons of bitches." —
Kenneth Bainbridge (1904- ), US physicist. After the first atomic test.
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"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
— J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67), US physicist. Quoting Vishnu from the Gita, at the first atomic test in New Mexico, 16 July 1945.