This Charles Addams cartoon originally appeared in the New Yorker in 1940.
It's remarkable that Addams was able to so elegantly characterize the nature of quantum mechanics just fifteen years after its formulation in 1925-1926.
He also gave a glimpse into the future: it was in 1957 that Hugh Everett III first proposed what's now called the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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