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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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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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Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this…
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The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.
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All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course…
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At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles…
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By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the…
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For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra…
— Johannes Stark
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In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission…
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An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom,…
— Johannes Stark
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Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien...…
— Terence McKenna
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Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!
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