“The most efficient and practical interpretation of quantum mechanics is… no interpretation at all.”
F. J. Duarte (1954) Chilean-American physicist
in [Quantum Optics for Engineers, CRC, New York, 2013, 978-1439888537, F. J. Duarte]
“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.”
A Book of Burlesques (1916)
1910s
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Sunt aliquid Manes: letum non omnia finit,
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