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Physics begins by facing a mystery. It transforms the mystery into a puzzle. It solves the puzzle. And it finds itself facing a new mystery.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

Only after the atom has lost the last sensible quality does its true meaning for the physical world view become clear; the unity — real, though remote from our immediate perception — of all that our perception knows only as a multitude of appearances is systematically held together and symbolically represented in it, but not mechanically explained.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

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Born: June 28, 1912

Died: April 28, 2007 (aged 94)

Bio: Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the team which performed nuclear research in Germany during the Second World War, under Werner Heisenberg's leadership.

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