In 1926, German scientist Heisenberg became famous for his uncertainty principle. The idea is that there is inherent uncertainty to all particles’ positions, and particles can act like waves, with a wider possible area of location. The impact of this discovery led to Heisenberg’s creation of quantum mechanics with Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Dirac in the 1920s.
Werner Heisenberg Quotes in A Brief History of Time
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The success of scientific theories […] led the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace […] to argue that the universe was completely deterministic. Laplace suggested that there should be a set of scientific laws that would allow us to predict everything that would happen in the universe.
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Werner Heisenberg Quotes in A Brief History of Time
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The success of scientific theories […] led the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace […] to argue that the universe was completely deterministic. Laplace suggested that there should be a set of scientific laws that would allow us to predict everything that would happen in the universe.
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