Physicists do not believe quantum mechanics because it explains the world, but because it predicts the outcome of experiments with almost miraculous accuracy. Theorists kept predicting new particles and other phenomena, and experiments kept bearing out those predictions.


p. 70 - The End of Science (1996)

John Horgan Quotes

Physicists do not believe quantum mechanics because it explains the world, but because it predicts the outcome of experiments with almost miraculous...

Physicists do not believe quantum mechanics because it explains the world, but because it predicts the outcome of experiments with almost miraculous...

Physicists do not believe quantum mechanics because it explains the world, but because it predicts the outcome of experiments with almost miraculous...

Physicists do not believe quantum mechanics because it explains the world, but because it predicts the outcome of experiments with almost miraculous...