Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.

- Anton Zeilinger

I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

- Anton Zeilinger

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

- Anton Zeilinger

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

- Anton Zeilinger

It was easy in the early nineties to make a list of great things that could be done, now that there was such a convenient source of entangled pairs. …

- Anton Zeilinger