If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change … - Alfred Korzybski

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Alfred Korzybski

If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change so radically that most of what we call "stupidity" and even a great deal of what we consider "insanity" might disappear, and the "intractable" problems of war, poverty and injustice would suddenly seem a great deal closer to solution.

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