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The Quantum Enigma: Finding The Hidden Key QUOTES

The Quantum Enigma: Finding The Hidden Key QUOTES

1 " THE DIFFICULTIES AND INDEED PERPLEXITIES which beset us the moment we try to make philosophic sense out of the findings of quantum theory are caused, not just by the complexity and subtlety of the microworld, but first and foremost by an adhesion to certain false metaphysical premises, which have occupied a position of intellectual dominance since the time of René Descartes. "

― Wolfgang Smith , The Quantum Enigma: Finding The Hidden Key

2 " Descartes himself, as one will recall, experienced great difficulty in overcoming his celebrated doubts, and was able to do so only by way of a tortuous argument which few today would find convincing. Is it not strange that tough-minded scientists should have so readily, and for so long, espoused a rationalist doctrine which calls in question the very possibility of empirical knowledge? "

― Wolfgang Smith , The Quantum Enigma: Finding The Hidden Key