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title: "3 Discreteness Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/i-do-not-know-if-it-has-ever-been-noted-before-that-one-of-the-main/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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> [Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doron-zeilberger/conventional-wisdom-fooled-by-our-misleading-physical-intuition-is/)

[Doron Zeilberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doron-zeilberger/)

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> [The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-schrodinger/the-great-revelation-of-the-quantum-theory-was-that-features-of/)

[Erwin Schrodinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erwin-schrodinger/)

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