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...in microphysics the observer interferes with the experiment in a way that can't be measured and that therefore can't be eliminated. No natural laws can be formulated, saying "such-and-such will happen in every case." All the microphysicist can say is "such-and-such is, according to statistical probability, likely to happen." This naturally represents a tremendous problem for our classical physical thinking. It requires a consideration, in a scientific experiment, of the mental outlook of the participant-observer: It could this be said that scientists can no longer hope to describe any aspects or qualities of outer objects in a completely independent, "objective" manner.

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18. Your life is before you. Be careful of the choices you make now that you could regret later. This regret is the subject of an old poem whose author has been forgotten. I hope you__l never have reason to apply it to yourself. Across the fields of yesterday, He sometimes comes to me A little lad just back from play_ The boy I used to be. He looks at me so wistfully When once he__ crept within; It is as if he hoped to see The man I might have been.

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James C. Dobson

Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future