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Quotes from Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science — Werner Heisenberg

1901–1976 Germany

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Art is always an idealization; the ideal is different from reality—at least from the reality of the shadows, as Plato would have put it—but idealization is necessary for understanding.

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (1958)

The theory of relativity... showed in a conclusive way that the concept of the ether as a substance, to which Maxwell's equations refer, had to be abandoned. ...the result was that the fields had to be considered as an independent reality.

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (1958)

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