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Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing.
The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In a...
Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.
-- Edward...
Quantum particles: the dreams that stuff is made of. -- David Mose
Quantum physics predicts the past with 80% accuracy
QUANTUM SUFFICIT The type of phrase that makes you wonder if this language would be any better off if there was someone in charge who had power of veto over the introduction of new words.
-- Da...
QUARK: The sound made by a well bred duck.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 496...
quarter: n. Two bits. This in turn comes from the `pieces of eight' famed in pirate movies --- Spanish silver crowns that could be broken into eight pie-slice-shaped `bits' to make change.
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Quasimodo - that name rings a bell.
Quasimoto: 4 wheeled hard-top moped made in France.

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