"Instead of Newtonian certainty and determinism, quantum theory answers our questions with probability and statistics. Classical physics told us precisely where Mars was to be found. Quantum theory sends us to the gambling table to locate an electron in an atom. Then there's Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which places an ultimate limit on our knowledge of the microworld and tells us that we can make no measurement without affecting the result."
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Roger S. Jones, Physics for the Rest of Us (1992) p. 155.
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