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An Introduction to Medical Dance/Movement Therapy: Health Care in Motion - Page 22
by Sharon W. Goodill - 2005 - 240 pages
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Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science

Stanislav Grof, Marjorie Livingston Valier - Philosophy - 1984 - 306 pages
...substance," outside the human mind, but an integrated whole. "What we observe," as Heisenberg said, "is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." In other words, the object of all scientific knowledge is not nature itself — or the "thing as such,"...
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Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge

Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1985 - 270 pages
...interference effects, exactly as with light waves. As Heisenberg put it in his Physics and Philosophy, "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." Is there then any significant difference between the particle-wave and the wave-particle? The answer...
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Naturalistic Inquiry

Yvonna S. Lincoln, Egon G. Guba - Philosophy - 1985 - 422 pages
...substantive theories in virtually all fields, and at all levels. As Heisenberg (1958, p. 58) himself put it, "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." 1n the same vein, Tranel (1981 , p. 427) comments: 1f in physics one cannot observe without distorting...
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The Creative Imperative: Human Growth & Planetary Evolution

Charles M. Johnston - Psychology - 1996 - 422 pages
...observer safely separated from it by a 20 centimeter slab of glass." In the words of Werner Heisenberg, "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.... Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature, it is part of the interplay between nature...
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Japanese Capitalism Since 1945: Critical Perspectives

Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Takurō Seiyama - Business & Economics - 1989 - 236 pages
...within the traditional hard sciences themselves. As the physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote in 1958, "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."5 In the study of a complex and controversial social system like the Japanese economy,...
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Philosophy of Science and the Occult: Second Edition

Patrick Grim - Philosophy - 1990 - 408 pages
...meaningful only in the context of the object's interaction with the observer. In the words of Heisenberg, "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." 14 The observer decides how he is going to set up the measurement and this arrangement will determine,...
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System Design Modeling and Metamodeling

John P. van Gigch - Business & Economics - 1991 - 480 pages
...[does not] run its course in space and in time according to strict causal laws."7 As Heisenberg wrote, "what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."8 In brief, "science, at the level of subatomic events, is no longer 'exact', the distinction...
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Exquisite Corpse: Writing on Buildings

Michael Sorkin - Architecture - 1991 - 388 pages
...thing. And it's the addition of our private arts that makes a house a home. 1987 CANTICLES FOR MIKE* What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our methods of questioning. WERNER HE1SENBERG i. A VERY BRIGHT LIGHT Webb's penetrating ray illumines the...
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The Evolution of Cognitive Maps: New Paradigms for the Twenty-first Century

Ervin Laszlo - Performing Arts - 1993 - 320 pages
...observing the electron changed it. How the electron was observed, therefore, contributed to its identity. What "we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning" (Heisenberg 1958b, p. 58). The limitations of science were unavoidable consequences of the act of observation....
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Educational Research and Evaluation: For Policy and Practice?

Robert G. Burgess - Education - 1993 - 202 pages
...research project of the teachers' choice. Educational Research and an Attitude of Scientific Inquiry What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our methods of questioning. . . . Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature, it is part...
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