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What, indeed, is at the heart of the message we have received from the atoms? Bohr, Heisenberg, and Pauli each emphasized different features when describing the ‘epistemological lesson’ given by atomic research. Examined more carefully, their basic views are closer to each other than they seem at first. Let us compare their views, because the differences between them are often exaggerated.
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Laurikainen, K.V. (1997). Scientism. In: The Message of the Atoms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60560-4_4
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