Willis Lamb Quotes & Sayings

A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition ... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve. — Willis Lamb

I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems. — Willis Lamb

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved. — Willis Lamb