Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.
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Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'
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It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
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Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.
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Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
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It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.
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