“The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.”

“Which came first — the observer or the particle?”

“It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's. ”

“‎In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed, the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to a high degree of accuracy.”

“The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless”

“Some of them she had seen for four years without exchanging a word. But that was how high school worked; it issued a verdict and you behaved accordingly.”