Physics and beyond
by Werner Heisenberg · first published 1972
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If you are also a little bit interested in philosophy, Heisenberg's "Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations" is a wonderful recommendation.
on “Von Neumann, Einstein, Morgenstern, Morse and Lefschetz (1952)” ↗I was reading "Physics and Beyond" by Werner Heisenberg this weekend, and he mentioned reservations about Plato, specifically, speculation about the form and behavior of constituent particles of matter as described in the Timaeus. Heisenberg…
on “How to read Plato (1995)” ↗…(https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/28983/McG... ) I prefer: “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them” - Werner Karl Heisenberg (1971) Physics and beyond: Encounters and conversations and: "you must learn from the mistakes of others—you will never live long enough to make them all yourself" - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/09/18/live-long/
on “Great Pacific garbage patch cleanup fails to collect plastic” ↗