Werner Heisenberg Quotes11 of 13 |
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With regard to this question modern physics takes a definite stand against the materialism of Democritus and for Plato and the Pythagoreans . The elementary particles are certainly not eternal and indestructible units of matter, they can actually be transformed into each other. ... The elementary particles in Plato's Timaeus are finally not substance but mathematical forms.
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