"... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute."

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The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.

— G. H. Hardy