Re: Help--quotations of physicists

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From: Jonathan M. Gilligan
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:00

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In article <1992Apr14.132650.4847@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> eer36024@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik Reuter) writes:
>
>I do not like it, and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
>      -- E. Schrodinger [on quantum mechanics]
> 

The quotation, according to John Bell (he doesn't say where he got it), is

If we have to go on with these damned quantum jumps, then I'm sorry that I
ever got involved.

from Speakable and unspeakable in quantum mechanics (Cambridge, Cambridge,
1987) p. 201.

---Jon

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