The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects.
Science clears the fields on which technology can build.
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.
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.
Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word ‘understanding’
The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct “actuality” of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.
The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time – the two concepts are too different.
The ‘path’ comes into existence only when we observe it.
The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.