“"Shall we do it?" "Well, then let's go, we shall do it!" Otto Stern asking, Walther Gerlach answering.”

—  Otto Stern

As quoted in The Historical Development of Quantum Theory: Its Foundation and the Rise of Its Difficulties, 1900-1925 (2001) by Jagdish Mehra, p. 437.
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