QuoteQuest“I regard [the many worlds interpretation] as self-evidently correct. [T.F.: Yet some don't find it evident to themselves.] Yeah, well, there are some people who spend an awful lot of time talking about the interpretation of quantum mechanics. My attitude — I would paraphrase Goering—is that when I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my gun.”
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In a conversation with Timothy Ferris (4 April 1983), as quoted in The Whole Shebang (1998) by Timothy Ferris, p. 345
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Hawking, Stephen. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Stephen Hawking. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
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