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  -- Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) German physici...
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
  Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it....
• Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
  -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) -- Picasso Speaks, in The Arts (May 1923)...
• Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
  -- Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) German physici...
• But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
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