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Werner Heisenberg1901–1976

Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language.

Werner Heisenberg on science

“Introductory” in The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory (1930) as translated by Carl Eckhart and Frank C. Hoyt, p. 10

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