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Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.
   
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Albert Einstein in a 1926 letter to Max Born
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The complete is more than the sum of its pieces.
   
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Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
   
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Albert Einstein in a response to Alfred Kerr
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
   
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
   
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The truth is more important than the facts." ... "There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
   
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
   
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Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.
   
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Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. - Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
   
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Cogito ergo sum. – I think, therefore I am.
   
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