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In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

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I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.

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At the first of the 1960's Rochester Coherence Conferences, I suggested that a license be required for use of the word photon, and offered to give such license to properly qualified people.

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Neither Dirac nor von Neumann discussed his measurements in physical terms.

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In fact, there really is not a new law of nature. It was all in the theory to begin with but nobody worked it out.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Willis Lamb

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Born: July 12, 1913
Died: May 15, 2008 (aged 94)
Bio: Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum.

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