The Very Act Of Observing Disturbs The

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.

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 Same Organizing Forces That Have Shaped Nature In All Her Forms Are Also Responsible For The Structure Of Our Minds.

Looking At Something Changes It.

The Ontology Of Materialism Rested Upon The Illusion That The Kind Of Existence, The Direct "actuality" Of The World Around Us, Can Be Extrapolated Into The Atomic Range. This Extrapolation Is Impossible, However.