Alain Aspect Quotes

This is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.

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

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.

Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.