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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our me

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. – Werner Heisenberg

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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. – Werner Heisenberg

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Werner Heisenberg
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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. – Werner Heisenberg

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Of all natures gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. – Thomas Huxley

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Nature is a petrified magic city. – Novalis

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Sound is the vocabulary of nature. – Pierre Schaeffer

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