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Quotes from Das Naturgesetz und die Struktur der Materie — Werner Heisenberg

1901–1976 Germany

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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.

Das Naturgesetz und die Struktur der Materie (1967)

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