“Newtonian physics found its apostle in Kant; modern physics is still awaiting its modern expounder.”
Source: The Halakhic Mind, 1986, p. 12
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Didier Sornette (1957) French scientist
Source: Why Stock Markets Crash - Critical Events in Complex Systems (2003), Chapter 2, Fundamentals Of Financial Markets, p. 38.
“As astronomy and physics inspired the Enlightenment, so biology inspired Modernism.”
Eric R. Kandel (1929) American neuropsychiatrist
The Age of Insight (2012)
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Fritz London (1900–1954) American physicist
[Fritz London, Edmond Bauer, La théorie de l'observation en mécanique quantique, Hermann, Paris, 1939]
Translation by [John Archibald Wheeler, Wojciech Hubert Zurek, Quantum Theory and Measurement, Princeton University Press, 1983, 0-691-08315-0, 220]
“In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.”
Theodore Kaczynski book Industrial Society and Its Future
"Surrogate Activities", item 40
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
Kurt Danziger (1926) German academic
Source: "Does the history of psychology have a future?." 1994, p. 472
Francis Crick (1916–2004) British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966, p. 10.
Of Molecules and Men (1966)
Liu Cixin (1963) Chinese science fiction writer
On how physics fits into his works in “In the Author’s Universe: Interview with Sci-Fi Author Cixin Liu” https://vocal.media/futurism/in-the-authors-universe-interview-with-sci-fi-author-cixin-liu in Vocal (2016)