“So minuscule is the scale of quantum events compared to the actions of everyday life that it's a wonder humans ever found out about the quantum world at all.”
Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 8, "And Then A Miracle Occurs": The Quantum Measurement Problem, p. 150
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“The quantum world is objective but objectless.”
Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 9, Four Quantum Realities, p. 162
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