"Nothing could be more arid than the principles of quantum mechanics. Its concepts and laws are cast in a blunt, inescapable mathematical form, without a trace of anything intuitive, a total absence of the obviousness we see in the things around us. And yet, this theory penetrates reality to a depth our senses cannot take us. Its laws are universal, and they rule over the world of objects so familiar to us. We, who inhabit this world, cannot make our own vision prevail over those arrogant laws, whose concepts seem to flow from an order higher than the one inspired by the things we can touch, see, and say with ordinary words."
--from page 163 of Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science, by Roland
Omnès, professor of physics at the University of Paris XI. Copyright 1999 by Princeton University Press. English translation by Arturo Sangalli.
