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• ‟ Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

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• ‟ The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.

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• ‟ I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

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• ‟ Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

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• ‟ So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

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• ‟ If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

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