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Is the Moon there when nobody looks?

— David Mermin (1985)



Shut up and calculate.

— David Mermin (1989)



theory for which the fundamental physical and mathematical hypotheses are no longer susceptible of modification.

— Werner Heisenberg (1927)



Thus galaxies with distances greater than [about 14 billion light years] are receding from us with velocities greater than the speed of light ….

— Tamara Davis (2001)



Bohr was notorious for the obscurity of his writing. … But Bohr’s obscurity is attributed, time and again, to a ‘depth and subtlety’ that mere mortals are not equipped to comprehend.

— Mara Beller (1998)



The founders of quantum physics — Bohr, Born, Pauli and Heisenberg — misrepresented and ridiculed Einstein’s ‘naïve’ belief in an objective, observer-independent reality.

— Mara Beller (1998)



I’m sorry because most of that was wrong.

— Niels Bohr (1962)