Murray Gell-Mann Quantum Quotations

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often

Is it imaginable that in the 13 or 14 billion years before human life appeared there was no quantum mechanics? That is ludicrous.

I think one can try to reduce the amount of confusion, and also to reduce the amount of nonsense that's talked about quantum mechanics.