Tag: Newton

  • Heisenberg on Goethe

    Heisenberg on Goethe

    I have been aware of Werner Heisenberg’s respect for Goethe the scientist for some time, so was very happy to discover his 1952 lectures on “Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science”. I give below a verbatim copy of the text of his fifth lecture….

  • Mathematics

    Mathematics

    Galileo, Descartes, Newton and the quantification of the physical world – mechanics…