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Book cover for Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
The point is not that you inevitably bump into a quantum system while measuring it and therefore change it. It’s that there do not exist any states in which both position and momentum are highly localized at the same time.
Joshua Dewald
This was the most cogent explanation I've gotten for why uncertainty isn't just a limitation of our "instruments", so to speak.
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“The Gorgias presented by Plato would agree with this. He tells Socrates that if a doctor and a rhetorician debate in front of an audience about how best to cure a patient, the audience will agree with the rhetorician and not the doctor (456b–c). He gives examples to prove his point: for instance, it was the great orator Pericles who persuaded the Athenians to build a defensive wall, not a bunch of stonemasons, who are experts in wall-building (455e).”
Peter Adamson, Classical Philosophy

Mark Twain
“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is lead in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, and every day, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, (which are but the mute articulation of his feelings,) not those other things are his history. His acts and his words are merely the visible thin crust of his world, with its scattered snow summits and its vacant wastes of water-and they are so trifling a part of his bulk! a mere skin enveloping it. The mass of him is hidden-it and its volcanic fires that toss and boil, and never rest, night nor day. These are his life, and they are not written, and cannot be written.”
Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain

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