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" In physics, recall the time and energy once wasted by brilliant theoreticians debating “Is the electron a wave or a particle?” In E-Prime this becomes “Does the wave model of the electron model tell us more than, as much as, or less than the particle model?” Once stated that way, it would not have required the genius of Bohr to find the answer, which appears nowadays as “Usually, as much as; sometimes, in special cases, more or less than.” (Insofar as Bohr admitted the influence of the pragmatist James and the existentialist Kierkegaard, both of them also obvious influences on E-Prime, Bohr had the spirit, if not the letter, or E-Prime, when he realized physics could usefully model the electron both as wave and as particle in different contexts: a triumph of perspectivism that, curiously, does not arouse the fury of Gross and Levitt . . .) "

Robert Anton Wilson , Cosmic Trigger 3: My Life After Death


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Robert Anton Wilson quote : In physics, recall the time and energy once wasted by brilliant theoreticians debating “Is the electron a wave or a particle?” In E-Prime this becomes “Does the wave model of the electron model tell us more than, as much as, or less than the particle model?” Once stated that way, it would not have required the genius of Bohr to find the answer, which appears nowadays as “Usually, as much as; sometimes, in special cases, more or less than.” (Insofar as Bohr admitted the influence of the pragmatist James and the existentialist Kierkegaard, both of them also obvious influences on E-Prime, Bohr had the spirit, if not the letter, or E-Prime, when he realized physics could usefully model the electron both as wave and as particle in different contexts: a triumph of perspectivism that, curiously, does not arouse the fury of Gross and Levitt . . .)