In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
John Gribbin
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.”
“...the best things in science are both beautiful and simple, a fact that all too many teacher conceal from their students, by accident or design.”
“...true story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.”
“Nothing is real unless it is observed”
“It isn't just that Bohr's atom with its electron "orbits" is a false picture; all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.”
“...there is no underlying reality to the world. "Reality," in the everyday sense, is not a good way to think about the behavior of the fundamental particles that make up the universe; yet at the same time those particles seem to be inseparably connected into some invisible whole, each aware of what happens to the others.”
“Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron," he said, and our best description of the atom boils down to "something unknown is doing we don't know what".”
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
“If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . .”
“Every problem in quantum physics had to be first “solved” using classical physics, and then be reworked by the judicious insertion of quantum numbers more by inspired guesswork than cool reasoning.”
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atoms, particles, understanding-the-world, discovery, life, quantum-physics, physics, science, quantum-mechanics
