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The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but…

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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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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes,… — Claude Bernard
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a… — Henri Poincare
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior… — Werner Heisenberg
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living,… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than… — Jose Mujica
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality. — William Wordsworth
Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters. — Justin Raimondo
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality. — Jonathan Haidt
Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for… — Kwame Nkrumah
Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we… — Barack Obama
The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself… — Alexandre Kojeve

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