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"All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it."
"The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet."
"If you know the wavefunction of the universe, why aren't you rich?"
"But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy."
"Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off."
"Bush is a nice fellow who gives very good parties. I just wish someone would find him a better job than running the country."
"While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just that."
"Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special"
"Think how hard physics would be if particles could think"
"Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties"