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“Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.”

— Richard Feynman

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Wikiquote: Richard Feynman
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Context

"Simulating Physics with Computers", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, volume 21, 1982, p. 467-488, at p. 486 (final words)

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Feynman, Richard. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Richard Feynman. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

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