The story I heard is that Schrödinger went to Switzerland with two goals: to keep his mistress happy and to derive a wave equation for matter.
How successful he was with the former is open to speculation.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth … They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

Louis de Broglie, 1948


I, at any rate, am convinced that He [God] is not playing at dice.

I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein, 1926
Thus it seems Einstein was doubly wrong when he said, God does not play dice. Not only does God definitely play dice, but He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

Stephen Hawking, 1999
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.

Michio Kaku, 1995
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said: 'one CAN'T believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll, 1871
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school — and you think I'm going to explain it to you so you can understand it? No, you're not going to be able to understand it. Why, then, am I going to bother you with all this? Why are you going to sit here all this time, when you won't be able to understand what I am going to say? It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it either. That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Richard Feynman, 1983


More scallywag have hidden in the mires of quantum mechanics than legitimate science.

Perry DeAngelis


Niels Bohr
(1885-1962)	:  	Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word.


Max Planck
(1858-1947)	:  [A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.]


Matter tells space how to curve. Space tells mater how to move.

John Archibald Wheeler