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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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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural…
— John Berger
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share…
— Abdallah II
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I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the…
— Christiane Amanpour
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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.
— Werner Heisenberg
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The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to…
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot…
— Aharon Appelfeld
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When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy,…
— Huston Smith
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The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are…
— Peter Kropotkin
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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in…
— Ben Hecht
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The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect…
— Ben Hecht
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There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political…
— Hannah
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