Erwin Schrodinger — "The only possible way of avoiding paradoxes is to admit that the 'observer' is n…"
The only possible way of avoiding paradoxes is to admit that the 'observer' is not something that stands outside the world, but is part of it.
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Attributed, general philosophical stance, hard to pinpoint exact wording/source.
Date: Approx. 1950s
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