... quantum mechanics is a complete, unified, coherent, and mathematically super-elegant scheme for providing us with (probabilistic) answers to all questions that seem to have any empirical sense. (Luboš Motl)

... quantum mechanics is a complete, unified, coherent, and mathematically super-elegant scheme for providing us with (probabilistic) answers to all questions that seem to have any empirical sense.

Luboš Motl

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