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Why does measuring a quantum object change it?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, but Is It Possible?

I am certainly open to the possibility that the human mind is just not capable of comprehending some basic features of reality. On the other hand, we've got a pretty good track record of banging our heads against a problem and eventually coming up with a pretty good theory of what's going on in a pretty good mathematical description. I'm just not convinced that quanta mechanics presents that limit. We have too many ideas about how to understand the reality behind the math. That doesn't sound like a failure of human intuition to me, at least not yet.

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