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Chapter 8, The Oracle of Copenhagen, Science is about information, p. 64
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Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

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Hans Christian von Baeyer

About Hans Christian von Baeyer

Hans Christian von Baeyer (born 1938) is a Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary.