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TIL that the three great minds: Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr and Erwin Schrödinger behind Quantum Mechanics all read from and greatly respected the Vedas, the ancient Indian Sanskrit texts on spirituality. Schrödinger even mentioned this in a book he wrote called "My view of the world."

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