Clergyman's

The gist of Bell's theorem is this: no local model of reality can explain the results of a particular experiment.
- Nick Herbert (physicist)

Bell himself managed to devise such a proof which rejects all models of reality possessing the property of ""locality"". This proof has since become known as Bells theorem. It asserts that no local model of reality can underlie the quantum facts. Bell's theorem says that reality must be non-local.
- Nick Herbert (physicist)

Physicists, for all their odd notions, are basically a conservative lot.
- Nick Herbert (physicist)

The quantum world is objective but objectless.
- Nick Herbert (physicist)

Most everywhere, most of the time, the world dwells in an unmeasured state.
- Nick Herbert (physicist)

If a friend in Texas seals a silver coin in one envelope and a gold coin in another and mails the envelopes to Tokyo and London, the instant you open you envelope in Japan you know the contents of my envelope in England. But opening your letter causes no physical change in England but merely involves a change in your knowledge concerning something happening far away and outside your control.
- Nick Herbert (physicist)

One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have lost their grip on reality.
- Nick Herbert (physicist)

The entire visible universe, what Bishop Berkley called ""the mighty frame of the world,"" rests ultimately on a strange quantum kind of being no more substantial than a promise.
- Nick Herbert (physicist)

One of the curious features of modern physics is that in spite of its overwhelming success in explaining a vast range of of physical phenomena from quark to quasar, it fails to give us a single metaphor for how the universe really works.
- Nick Herbert (physicist)

So minuscule is the scale of quantum events compared to the actions of everyday life that it's a wonder humans ever found out about the quantum world at all.
- Nick Herbert (physicist)