Sapiens vivit quantum debet, non quantum potest.

 

Sapiens vivit quantum debet, non quantum potest.
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The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.
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Letter LXX: On the proper time to slip the cable, line 4.

 

Seneca the Younger

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It seems clear that the present quantum mechanics is not in its final form. Some further changes will be needed, just about as drastic as the changes made in passing from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. Some day a new quantum mechanics, a relativistic one, will be discovered, in which we will not have these infinities occurring at all. It might very well be that the new quantum mechanics will have determinism in the way that Einstein wanted.

 

Paul Dirac

 

Does life in some way make use of the potentiality for vast quantum superpositions, as would be required for serious quantum computation? How important are the quantum aspects of DNA molecules? Are cellular microtubules performing some essential quantum roles? Are the subtleties of quantum field theory important to biology? Shall we gain needed insights from the study of quantum toy models? Do we really need to move forward to radical new theories of physical reality, as I myself believe, before the more subtle issues of biology — most importantly conscious mentality — can be understood in physical terms? How relevant, indeed, is our present lack of understanding of physics at the quantum/classical boundary? Or is consciousness really “no big deal,” as has sometimes been expressed?
It would be too optimistic to expect to find definitive answers to all these questions, at our present state of knowledge, but there is much scope for healthy debate...

 

Roger Penrose

 

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

 

Hans Christian von Baeyer

 

Quantum fiction is literature that embodies the new physical or quantum universe.

 

Vanna Bonta

 

Gomatam has proposed a new approach according to which quantum theory ought to use the terms ‘statistics’ or ‘probability’ to refer only to the occurrence of observable events and altogether renounce the notion of probabilities when talking about quantum ontological states.

 

Ravi Gomatam