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.
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows. - Werner Heisenberg
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
- Werner Heisenberg
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. - Werner Heisenberg
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
The reality we can put into words is never reality itself. - Werner Heisenberg
The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.
The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it. - Werner Heisenberg
The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. - Werner Heisenberg
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. - Werner Heisenberg
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else. - Werner Heisenberg
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.
Looking at something changes it. - Werner Heisenberg
Looking at something changes it.
When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first. - Werner Heisenberg
When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.
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