Astronomical measurements are, without exception, measurements of phenomena occurring in a terrestrial observatory or station; it is only by theory that they are translated into knowledge of a universe outside.

… there is no doubt that his words express what is in our minds when we refer to determinism.

A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy;
A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe.

Astronomical measurements are, without exception, measurements of phenomena occurring in a terrestrial observatory or station; it is only by theory that they are translated into knowledge of a universe outside.

Aether is everywhere.

But what, therefore, am I? A thing that thinks?

What possible justification could there be for the choice of a particular boundary condition―aside from the fact that it works, i.e. that it leads to what we observe?

Cosmologists, even more than laboratory physicists, must find the usual interpretive rules of quantum mechanics a bit frustrating ….

But in 1952 I saw the impossible done. It was in papers by David Bohm.