No One Understood Quantum Mechanics
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
(Max Planck, 1920)
All these fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no nearer to the answer to the question, 'What are light quanta?'
(Albert Einstein, 1954)
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum physics cannot possibly have understood it.
(Niels Bohr, 1958)
The one great dilemma nails us…day and night is the wave-particle dilemma.
(Erwin Schrodinger, 1959)
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
(Richard Feynman, 1965)