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In The Strict Formulation Of The Law Of Causality—if We Know The Present, We Can Calculate The Future—it Is Not The Conclusion That Is Wrong But The Premise. On An Implication Of The Uncertainty Principle.

If Nature Leads Us To Mathematical Forms Of Great Simplicity And Beauty - By Forms I Am Referring To Coherent Systems Of Hypothesis, Axioms, Etc. - To Forms That No One Has Previously Encountered, We Cannot Help Thinking That They Are "true," That They Reveal A Genuine Feature Of Nature... You Must Have Felt This Too: The Almost Frightening Simplicity And Wholeness Of Relationships Which Nature Suddenly Spreads Out Before Us And For Which None Of Us Was In The Least Prepared.

In General, Scientific Progress Calls For No More Than The Absorption And Elaboration Of New Ideas- And This Is A Call Most Scientists Are Happy To Heed.

Science No Longer Is In The Position Of Observer Of Nature, But Rather Recognizes Itself As Part Of The Interplay Between Man And Nature. The Scientific Method ... Changes And Transforms Its Object: The Procedure Can No Longer Keep Its Distance From The Object.

The Discontinuous 'reduction Of The Wave Packets' Which Cannot Be Derived From Schroedinger's Equation Is ... A Consequence Of The Transition From The Possible To The Actual.