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What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
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“The stories that science tells about the world filter out into the wider culture, changing the way that we look at the world around us and our place in it. The discovery that the Earth was not at the center of the universe, Darwin’s theory of evolution, the Big Bang and an expanding universe nearly 14 billion years old, containing hundreds of billions of galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars—these ideas have radically altered humanity’s conception of itself.”
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
“Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than any other method we apes have found for learning about the world around us.”
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
“Nonetheless, the appeal of Copenhagen makes some sense, seen in this light. Quantum physics drove much of the technological and scientific progress of the past ninety years: nuclear power, modern computers, the Internet. Quantum-driven medical imaging changed the face of health care; quantum imaging techniques at smaller scales have revolutionized biology and kicked off the entirely new field of molecular genetics. The list goes on. Make some kind of personal peace with Copenhagen, and contribute to this amazing revolution in science . . . or take quantum physics seriously, and come face-to-face with a problem that even Einstein couldn't solve. Shutting up never looked so good.”
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
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