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“The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.” quote by Werner Heisenberg — Download Open image

“The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.”

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“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”

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“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I an now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part…

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The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

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I think that if a United States of Europe were to be formed, it would be in our interests to fight for it, as…

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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 undular.

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It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human nature, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that…

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If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

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The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably…

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“what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning’.77”

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A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

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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 me ...…

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Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

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