It is really quite impossible to say anything with absolute precision, unless that thing is so abstracted from the real world as to not represent any real thing. (Richard Feynman)

It is really quite impossible to say anything with absolute precision, unless that thing is so abstracted from the real world as to not represent any real thing.

Richard Feynman

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