The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
Quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle
Philosophical interpretation of quantum reality
1955 (Physics and Philosophy)
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"The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part which has not yet been understood is infinite."
Strange & Unusual"The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
Controversial"Modern physics has, in a certain sense, revived Plato's philosophy of forms in the atomic world."
Strange & Unusual"The smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, structures or—in Plato's sense—Ideas."
Strange & Unusual"The reality we can put into words is never reality itself."
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