He's a Platonist and I am a positivist. He's worried that Schrodinger's cat is in a quantum state, where it is half dead and half alive. He feels that can't correspond to reality. But that doesn't bother me. I don't demand that a theory correspond to reality because I do not know what it is. Reality is not a quality you can test with litmus paper. All I am concerned with is that the theory should predict the results of measurements. Quantum theory does this very successfully. It predicts that the result of an observation is either that the cat is alive or that it is dead. It is like you can't be slightly pregnant; you either are or you aren't.

People need not be limited by physical handicaps as long as they are not disabled in spirit.

I find that American & Scandinavian accents work better with women.

You have to be creative to do science. Otherwise you're just repeating tired formulas

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