The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics Quotes

“than meets the eye! 79 Don’t worry, Fearless Reader—he was framed and eventually demonstrated his innocence. 80 I don’t want to tell them their jobs, but if I were an astronomer, I’d keep my eye on Planet X. I think it might be trouble. 81 Primarily because it”
― James Kakalios, The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World

“Using the tools developed by physicists in the last century, biologists in this century are poised to enact their own scientific revolution. Time will tell whether years from now another book will describe how "biologists changed the future." But on thing is for sure---we will not be able to embrace and participate in that future without the discipline, curiosity, questioning, and reasoning that science requires.”
― James Kakalios, The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World

“underwater cities, and robot personal assistants. From the 1930s on, science fiction pulp magazines and comic books promised us that by the year 2000 we would be living in a gleaming utopia where the everyday drudgery of menial tasks and the tyranny of gravity would be overcome. Comparing these predictions from more than fifty years ago to the reality of today, one might conclude that, well, we’ve been lied to. And yet . . . and yet. In 2010 we are able to communicate with those on the other side of the globe, instantly and wirelessly. We have more computing”
― James Kakalios, The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World

“distance = (speed) × (time).”
― James Kakalios, The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World

“13 “The Skylark of Space,” Edward Elmer Smith, with Lee Hawkins Garby (uncredited) (The Buffalo Book Co., 1946); first serialized in Amazing Stories, 1928. 15 “this theory predicted results that were nonsensical”: Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles, Robert Eisberg and Robert Resnick (John Wiley and Sons, 1974). 16”
― James Kakalios, The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World