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“Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a5c81a7adc71858f58372e3df28cd73e3229de7d7ab1c08e77187653a471459e
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