Rodney A. Brooks Quote

We assert that the atom in reality is merely the...phenomena of an electron wave captured, as it were, by the nucleus of the atom...From the point of view of wave mechanics, the [particle picture] would be merely fictitious. I have, however, already mentioned that we have yet really observed such particle paths [see, for example, Fig. 6-6]...We find it confoundedly difficult to interpret the traces we see as nothing more than narrow bundles of equally possible paths.

Rodney A. Brooks

We assert that the atom in reality is merely the...phenomena of an electron wave captured, as it were, by the nucleus of the atom...From the point of view of wave mechanics, the [particle picture] would be merely fictitious. I have, however, already mentioned that we have yet really observed such particle paths [see, for example, Fig. 6-6]...We find it confoundedly difficult to interpret the traces we see as nothing more than narrow bundles of equally possible paths.

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About Rodney A. Brooks

Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is a founder and former Chief Technical Officer of iRobot and co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics) and currently is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI (founded in 2019).