One day, when I was a student, I was reading a book on quantum mechanics, and I came across a sentence that said: 'The electron is a wave, and the electron is a particle.' I was very confused, because I thought it was either one or the other. But then I realized that it was both.
— Enrico Fermi Modern

Nuclear reactor, physics

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Recounting a personal anecdote about quantum mechanics.

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Undated, likely referring to his student years

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Shocking

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