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I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

Werner Heisenberg
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

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Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with a given velocity, and can we make these approximations so close that they do not cause experimental difficulties?

Werner Heisenberg
Natural science always presupposes man, and we must become aware of the fact that... we are not only spectators but also always participants on the stage of life.

Werner Heisenberg
In the experiments about atomic events we have to do with things and facts, with phenomena that are just as real as any phenomena in daily life. But the atoms of the elementary particles are not as real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

Werner Heisenberg
As facts and knowledge accumulate, the claim of the scientist to an understanding of the world in a certain sense diminishes.

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The problem of quantum theory centers on the fact that the particle picture and the wave picture are merely two different aspects of one and the same physical reality.

Werner Heisenberg
In fact, our ordinary description of nature, and the idea of exact laws, rests on the assumption that it is possible to observe the phenomena without appreciably influencing them.

Werner Heisenberg
Science progresses not only because it helps to explain newly discovered facts, but also because it teaches us over and over again what the word "understanding" may mean.

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