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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.
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The subject matter of research is no longer nature in itself, but nature subjected to human questioning.
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We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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Since the measuring device has been constructed by the observer... we have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Born:
December 5, 1901
Died:
February 1, 1976
(aged 74)
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