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The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

— Sidney Coleman

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People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics

Not only God knows, I know, and by the end of the semester, you will know.

It has been said, and wisely said, that every successful physical theory swallows its predecessors whole.

Quantum Mechanics in Your Face (1994)

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