## Metadata - Author: [[Lawrence M. Krauss]] - Full Title: Quantum Man - Category: #books ## Highlights - Theories of the known, which are described by different physical ideas, may be equivalent in all their predictions and are hence scientifically indistinguishable. However, they are not psychologically identical when trying to move from that base into the unknown. For different views suggest different kinds of modifications which might be made and hence are not equivalent in the hypotheses one generates from them in one’s attempt to understand what is not yet understood. ([Location 301](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004KKXMM4&location=301)) - As Wheeler later wrote, “I am eternally grateful for the fortune that brought us together on more than one fascinating enterprise. . . . Discussions turned into laughter, laughter into jokes, and jokes into more to-and-fro and more ideas. . . . From more than one of my courses he knew my faith that whatever is important is at bottom utterly simple.” ([Location 550](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004KKXMM4&location=550))