quantum theory
Noun
Meaning
(physics) a physical theory that certain properties occur only in discrete amounts (quanta)
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Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.
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.
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.