Willem de Sitter Quote

The inconsistency of first explaining matter by atoms and then explaining atoms by matter was only slowly realised, and it is only comparatively recently that we have come to see that there is nothing paradoxical in the fact that an atom or an electron, which are not matter, may have properties different from those of matter, and must be allowed to do things that a material particle could not do.


Kosmos (1932)


The inconsistency of first explaining matter by atoms and then explaining atoms by matter was only slowly realised, and it is only comparatively...

The inconsistency of first explaining matter by atoms and then explaining atoms by matter was only slowly realised, and it is only comparatively...

The inconsistency of first explaining matter by atoms and then explaining atoms by matter was only slowly realised, and it is only comparatively...

The inconsistency of first explaining matter by atoms and then explaining atoms by matter was only slowly realised, and it is only comparatively...