"The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based."
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Niels Bohr, "Atomic Physics and the Description of Nature" (1934)
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