quantum world is seen through classical glasses

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An example of metaphor in discourse about science:

"In brief, the only way to look at the quantum world is through classical glasses."

Landsman, Klaas (2017) Bohrification. From classical concepts to commutative operator algebras, in, Neils Bohr and the Philosophy of Physics. Twenty-first-century perspectives (Jan Faye & Henry J. Folse, eds.) Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp.335-366.

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Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.