Max Planck
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
Max Planck (1858-1947) – Winner of 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics
Friedrich Schleiermacher
“… the human soul….has its existence chiefly in two opposing impulses. One impulse is towards individuation of the self, the other towards surrender of the self to union with the whole.”
from The Matter with Things, pg. 826
Wolfgang Pauli
(Complementarity is the principle that objects have certain pairs of complementary properties which cannot be observed or measured simultaneously.)
“… it would be most satisfactory of all if physical nature and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.”
from The Matter with Things, pgs. 1050-1051
(Winner of Nobel Prize for Physics 1945)
