Schrödinger's Cat/Quotes

"The Schrödinger's Cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrodinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats."

—Fact Core, Portal 2

SCHRODINGER'S CAT is released from the SHADOWBOX, in every state that exists between being alive and dead!
Again the Probability Professor is flummoxed, because the cat exists in every state of probability at once.
And unfortunately for the Professor...
EVERY ONE OF THOSE CAT STATES IS UNBELIEVABLY DEADLY.

—Problem Sleuth

"Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist, who when the Nazis invaded Austria, fled to the UK and then to Dublin, where he had a colourful career, and actually fathered an illegitimate child. But that has nothing to do with his cat.

—Sixty Symbols

"When Schroedinger's cat's away, the mice may or may not play, no one can tell."

—Francis Heaney, Modern Humorist

"Come on down to Schroedinger's Pet Shop! We are having a special sale on boxed kittens, it could be dead, it could be alive, but you won't find anyone who will beat our prices!"

—Steve Coffman

Oh Hominids longing for much better times,
Remember that King Kong died for our crimes,
And the whiskers that rest on the edge of the hat
Could be all that is left of Schroedinger's Cat.

Curiosity may have killed Schrodinger's cat.

Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.

—Terry Pratchett, The Unadulterated Cat

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