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17545 | Quantum theory shows that exact science does not need dogmatic realism [Heisenberg] |
Full Idea: It is only through quantum theory that we have learned that exact science is possible without the basis of dogmatic realism. | |
From: Werner Heisenberg (Physics and Philosophy [1958], 05) |
221 | Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato] |
Full Idea: The absolute good and the beautiful and all which we conceive to be absolute ideas are unknown to us. | |
From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 134c) |
17538 | Quantum theory does not introduce minds into atomic events [Heisenberg] |
Full Idea: Certainly quantum theory does not contain genuine subjective features, it does not introduce the mind of the physicist as a part of the atomic event. | |
From: Werner Heisenberg (Physics and Philosophy [1958], 03) | |
A reaction: This should be digested by anyone who wants to erect some dodgy anti-realist, idealist, subjective metaphysics on the basis of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. |