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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 asking questions about…

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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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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. — John Cage
We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We possess only the happiness we able to understand. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are… — George Santayana
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us… — Emile Coue
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in… — Werner Heisenberg
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have… — Walter E. Williams
We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess. — Unknown Author
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser. — Michel de Montaigne
In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the… — Paulo Coelho
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life… — Harold S. Kushner
When we invite the Holy Ghost to fill our minds with light and knowledge, He "quickens" us, that is to say, enlightens… — Keith K. Hilbig

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