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I Think That The Discovery Of Antimatter Was Perhaps The Biggest Jump Of All The Big Jumps In Physics In Our Century.

It Was About Three O'clock At Night When The Final Result Of The Calculation [which Gave Birth To Quantum Mechanics] Lay Before Me ... At First I Was Deeply Shaken ... I Was So Excited That I Could Not Think Of Sleep. So I Left The House ... And Awaited The Sunrise On Top Of A Rock.

Modern Physics Has Changed Nothing In The Great Classical Disciplines Of, For Instance, Mechanics, Optics, And Heat. Only The Conception Of Hitherto Unexplored Regions, Formed Prematurely From A Knowledge Of Only Certain Parts Of The World, Has Undergone A Decisive Transformation. This Conception, However, Is Always Decisive For The Future Course Of Research.

What We Observe Is Not Nature Itself, But Nature Exposed To Our Method Of Questioning.

The Solution Of The Difficulty Is That The Two Mental Pictures Which Experiment Lead Us To Form - The One Of The Particles, The Other Of The Waves - Are Both Incomplete And Have Only The Validity Of Analogies Which Are Accurate Only In Limiting Cases.