Alain Aspect quotes
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“It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality”
-- Alain AspectSource : Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.546, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
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“Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.”
-- Alain AspectSource : "Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy". Book by J. S. Bell, 2004.
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“The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.”
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“The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.”
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.”
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