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A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

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To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

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Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

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Every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.

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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

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Born: July 4, 1937 (age 87)
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