Ken Livingstone (1945) Mayor of London between 2000 and 2008
As quoted in Socialist Organiser, the newspaper of the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory (March 1979)
“It is widely believed that only those who can master the latest quantum mathematics can understand anything of what is happening. That is not so”
Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961)
Context: It is widely believed that only those who can master the latest quantum mathematics can understand anything of what is happening. That is not so, provided one takes the long view, for no one can see far ahead. Against a historical background, the layman can understand what is involved, for example, in the fascinating challenge of continuity and discontinuity expressed in the antithesis of field and particle.<!--p.4
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Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) German theoretical physicist
Physics and Philosophy (1958)
Context: But the resemblance of the modern views to those of Plato and the Pythagoreans can be carried somewhat further. The elementary particles in Plato's Timaeus are finally not substance but mathematical forms. "All things are numbers" is a sentence attributed to Pythagoras. The only mathematical forms available at that time were such geometric forms as the regular solids or the triangles which form their surface. In modern quantum theory there can be no doubt that the elementary particles will finally also be mathematical forms but of a much more complicated nature.
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) German theoretical physicist
The Development of Quantum Mechanics (1933)
Context: However the development proceeds in detail, the path so far traced by the quantum theory indicates that an understanding of those still unclarified features of atomic physics can only be acquired by foregoing visualization and objectification to an extent greater than that customary hitherto. We have probably no reason to regret this, because the thought of the great epistemological difficulties with which the visual atom concept of earlier physics had to contend gives us the hope that the abstracter atomic physics developing at present will one day fit more harmoniously into the great edifice of Science.
“I only believe in those who can still blush.”
Nélson Rodrigues (1912–1980) Brazilian writer and playwright
Asfalto Selvagem: Engraçadinha, seus amores e seus pecados: novel - Page 176, by Nelson Rodrigues, Ruy Castro - Published by Companhia das Letras, 1994 ISBN 8571643717, 9788571643710 - 555 páginas
Indíra Gándhí (1917–1984) Indian politician and Prime Minister
Jul 29 1982 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHk9zoG6PXw
“If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen”
Amy Lee (1981) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Werner Heisenberg book The Part and The Whole
Die Quantentheorie ist so ein wunderbares Beispiel dafür, daß man einen Sachverhalt in völliger Klarheit verstanden haben kann und gleichzeitig doch weiß, daß man nur in Bildern und Gleichnissen von ihm reden kann. <br class="br">Der Teil und das Ganze. Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik (1969); also in "Kein Chaos, aus dem nicht wieder Ordnung würde", Die Zeit No. 34 (22 August 1969) http://www.zeit.de/1969/34/kein-chaos-aus-dem-nicht-wieder-ordnung-wuerde/komplettansicht; as translated in Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversation (1971)
“so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.”
Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters
Source: The Sea of Monsters
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899–1980) American physicist
Quantum Mechanics, The Key to Understanding Magnetism, Nobel Lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1977/vleck-lecture.pdf (December 8, 1977)