Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/926/en

In the advance of quantum physics it became evident that these sense-experience-dependent ideas are not tenable. Niels Bohr (1885–1962), the father of quantum physics, arrived at the conclusion: "There is no quantum world." His congenial colleagues Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) and others confirmed this insight. Heisenberg writes: "The smallest units of matter are in reality not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas, which can only be expressed unambiguously in mathematical language." — The atom, then, is no thing in space. And he continues: "When one attempts to penetrate behind this reality [by which is meant the sense-perceptible one; the author's note] into the details of atomic events, the contours of this 'objectively real' world dissolve — not into the mist of a new yet still unclear conception of reality, but into the transparent clarity of a mathematics that links the possible, not the factual, by lawful necessity." This "transparent clarity," however, is an abstraction. However correct it may be with respect to the being and working of sub-nature, it nevertheless runs up against a boundary — at which it can become clear to the cognizing human being that from this abstraction not a single spark of an ethical-moral impulse can be struck. Mathematics has to do with the physically-become, which makes itself known to thinking consciousness in numerical relationships. Their cogency is graspable in thought — that is, purely in the spirit. In them, the objective and the subjective fall into one. They are true in the restricted case of the

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