Werner Heisenberg — "The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that whic…"

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.
Werner Heisenberg — Werner Heisenberg Modern · Quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle

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Critiquing positivist philosophy in 'Physics and Philosophy'.

Date: 1958

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