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THE separate publication of these two lectures, which appearod in different periodicals in 1933 and 1934, directs the attention of a wider circle of readers to the views of one of the leading physicists of the day on natural knowledge. It is not without pride that Hcisenberg reviews the field already conquered by modern physics. But in all humility he does not think that these conquests have brought us any nearer to the understanding of reality, because of the mathematical character adopted by natural philosophy. Pure speculation, on the other hand, can no longer claim attention if it ignores the formal results of scientific investigation. At present, the way to know Nature should be left for everyone to find individually, unless wo wish to hope that the future will provide us with a single method satisfying all points of view.
Wandlungen in den Grundlagen der Naturwissenschaft: Zwei Vorträge
Von Werner Heisenberg. Pp. 45. (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1935.) n.p.
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G., T. [Book Reviews]. Nature 136, 322 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136322d0
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