"If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality..."
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Arthur Koestler
1905 – 1983
ungarisch-englischer Schriftsteller
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