If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be Shut up and calculate!

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Misattributed to Richard Feynman, by Matthew effect. | Attribution discussed in: Could Feynman Have Said This? by N. David Mermin, Physics Today, May 2004, page 10 (DOC)

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If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be Shut up and calculate!

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