“Ideas are like bundles of trajectories undergoing complicated evolution.”

— E. C. George Sudarshan

in A Glance Back at Five Decades of Scientific Research, published in Particles and Fields: Classical and Quantum, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 87 (2007), IOP Publishing, p. 9.

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