"You can’t blame most physicists for following this ‘shut up and calculate’ ethos because it has led to tremendous developments in nuclear physics, atomic physics, solid state physics and particle physics."
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Jean Bricmont, quoted in Zeeya Merali, "What is Really Real?", Nature (2015)
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