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Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the…
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It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead…
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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in…
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...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
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It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before…
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There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity…
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Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto…
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The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior…
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Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man…
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The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be…
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You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that…
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I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.
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As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And…
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Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.
— Steven Weinberg
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There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration…
— Lee Smolin
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We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does…
— William H. Gass
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My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall…
— Andrei Sakharov
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What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things…
— Werner Heisenberg
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What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only…
— Antony Garrett Lisi
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Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is…
— Edward Witten
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