Anton Zeilinger > Quotes

“Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.”
― Anton Zeilinger

“In general, there is no way to explain what an individual photon does, and we have good reasons to believe that this is not just our ignorance, but that this fundamental role of probability is a basic feature of how the universe works.”
― Anton Zeilinger, Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation

“We have tried for centuries to look deeper and deeper into finding causes and explanations, and suddenly, when we go to the very depths, to the behavior of individual particles of individual quanta, we find that this search for a cause comes to an end. There is no cause. In my eyes, this fundamental indeterminateness of the universe has not really been integrated into our worldview yet.”
― Anton Zeilinger, Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation

“I believe in the future of humankind. As long as there are children, as long as there are people who look up at the night sky in sheer wonder, as long as there is music and poetry and the Mona Lisa -- and old monasteries and young artists and fledgling scientists and all the other expressions of human creativity -- I will remain optimistic."
- Anton Zeilinger”
― Anton Zeilinger

“This is the essence of science. You don’t believe something just because someone famous said it. But”
― Anton Zeilinger, Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation