One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists … - Nick Herbert

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One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have lost their grip on reality.

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Nick Herbert (born September 7, 1936, Pittsburgh) is an American physicist and author, best known for his book Quantum Reality. Herbert studied Engineering Physics at the Ohio State University, graduating in 1959. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 1967 for work on nuclear scattering experiments.

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One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have lost their grip on reality. - Nick Herbert

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