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The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to…

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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…
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead…
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in…
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before…
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity…
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto…
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior…
Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man…
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be…
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that…
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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