Quantum questions: Mystical writings of the world's great physicists

Title ......Page 1
Copyright ......Page 2
Dedication ......Page 3
Contents ......Page 5
Preface to the 2001 Edition ......Page 7
Preface ......Page 9
1. Introduction: Of Shadows and Symbols ......Page 13
HEISENBERG ......Page 41
2. Truth Dwells in the Deeps ......Page 45
3. Scientific and Religious Truths ......Page 52
4. The Debate between Plato and Democritus ......Page 58
5. Science and the Beautiful ......Page 68
6. If Science Is Conscious of Its Limits ... ......Page 82
SCHROEDINGER ......Page 89
7. Why Not Talk Physics? ......Page 91
8. The Oneness of Mind ......Page 98
9. The I That Is God ......Page 104
10. The Mystic Vision ......Page 108
EINSTEIN ......Page 113
11. Cosmic Religious Feeling ......Page 115
12. Science and Religion ......Page 119
DE BROGLIE ......Page 129
13. The Aspiration Towards Spirit ......Page 131
14. The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism ......Page 138
JEANS ......Page 145
15. In the Mind of Some Eternal Spirit ......Page 147
16. A Universe of Pure Thought ......Page 159
PLANCK ......Page 169
17. The Mystery of Our Being ......Page 171
PAULI ......Page 179
18. Embracing the Rational and the Mystical ......Page 181
EDDINGTON ......Page 191
19. Beyond the Veil of Physics ......Page 193
20. Mind-Stuff ......Page 211
21. Defense of Mysticism ......Page 221
Acknowledgments ......Page 237