"In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it"

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Murray Gell-Mann

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“There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.”
“Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.”
“The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.”
“Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.”
“The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.”
“There were the classic challenges any tourist faces, like getting lost, getting sick, losing things, getting in a fight... All these things happened numerous times. The only point of the trip that was defiantly challenging was a point that's not actually in our film.”
“But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.”

Source : Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.173, Simon and Schuster
“I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.”

Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.

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