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This concept [matter] has hardly changed from the times of Leucippus to the beginning of the twentieth century: an impenetrable something, which fills completely certain regions of space and which persists through time even when it changes its location.

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The task of an epistemologist in contemporary physics is therefore a little like that of the psychoanalyst: to detect the remnants of classical thought beneath the verbal denials and conscious rejections.

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There can hardly be a sharper contrast than that between the everlasting atoms of classical physics and the vanishing "particles" of modern physics.

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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 nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Milič Čapek

Milič Čapek

Born: January 26, 1909
Died: November 17, 1997 (aged 88)
Bio: Milič Čapek, was a Czech American philosopher. Čapek was strongly influenced by the process philosophy of Henri Bergson and to a lesser degree by Alfred North Whitehead.

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