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In this concluding chapter I shall venture a few remarks on what I believe to be the present status of physics and its relations with the rest of exact science.
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Bongaarts, P. (2015). Concluding Remarks. In: Quantum Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09561-5_17
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