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Can we call something with which the concepts of position and motion cannot be associated in the usual way, a thing, or a particle? And if not, what is the reality which our theory has been invented to describe?
The answer to this is no longer physics, but philosophy.

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There are metaphysical problems, which cannot be disposed of by declaring them meaningless.

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The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world.

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