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By Getting To Smaller And Smaller Units, We Do Not Come To Fundamental Or Indivisible Units. But We Do Come To A Point Where Further Division Has No Meaning.

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

Science No Longer Is In The Position Of Observer Of Nature, But Rather Recognizes Itself As Part Of The Interplay Between Man And Nature. The Scientific Method ... Changes And Transforms Its Object: The Procedure Can No Longer Keep Its Distance From The Object.

The Incomplete Knowledge Of A System Must Be An Essential Part Of Every Formulation In Quantum Theory. Quantum Theoretical Laws Must Be Of A Statistical Kind. To Give An Example: We Know That The Radium Atom Emits Alpha-radiation. Quantum Theory Can Give Us An Indication Of The Probability That The Alpha-particle Will Leave The Nucleus In Unit Time, But It Cannot Predict At What Precise Point In Time The Emission Will Occur, For This Is Uncertain In Principle.

Not Only Is The Universe Stranger Than We Think, It Is Stranger Than We Can Think.