It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
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No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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