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I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.
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as quoted by Colin Bruce (2004). Schrödinger's rabbits: the many worlds of quantum. Joseph Henry Press. p. 213. ISBN 0309090512. 

 

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