Each observation destroys the bit of the universe observed, and so supplies knowledge only of a universe which has already become past history.


The New Background of Science, Chapter I (p. 2), The University of Michigan Press. 1959

James Jeans Quotes

Each observation destroys the bit of the universe observed, and so supplies knowledge only of a universe which has already become past history.

Each observation destroys the bit of the universe observed, and so supplies knowledge only of a universe which has already become past history.

Each observation destroys the bit of the universe observed, and so supplies knowledge only of a universe which has already become past history.

Each observation destroys the bit of the universe observed, and so supplies knowledge only of a universe which has already become past history.