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Reviews Acta Biotheoretica 34:91-101 (1985). © 1985 Martinus Nijhoff/Dr W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht. Printed in the Netherlands. K.Wilber (ed) Quantum Questions; Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists. Boulder & London, Shambala 1984 , pp.208, 1 fig., $ 8.95 (paper), ISBN 0-87773-266-3; 0-394-72338-4 (Random House). A delightful and inspiring collection of passages from Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Einstein, de Broglie, Jeans, Planck and Eddington, in which these architects of modern physics do not talk physics but what lies beyond: metaphysics, religion and mysticism. Even though their cormnon scientific specialism flavours their metaphysics, much of what is said by the contributors concerns biologists and psychologists as well as physicists. There is variety enough: Heisenberg's precise analyses of, among other things, the role of the beautiful and its immediate recognition in the progression of science. There is Eddington's essays, both witty and profound, on the essence of the world: mind-stuff rather than the physical aspects. Or Schroedinger's uncompromising mysticism: the plurality of individual minds is only an appearance; there is only one mind of which 'individual minds' are merely aspects, not even parts. It is a pity that Pauli's essay "the influence of archetypal ideas on Kepler's construction of scientific theories", written together with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Biotheoretica Springer Journals

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Acta Biotheoretica 34:91-101 (1985). © 1985 Martinus Nijhoff/Dr W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht. Printed in the Netherlands. K.Wilber (ed) Quantum Questions; Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists. Boulder & London, Shambala 1984 , pp.208, 1 fig., $ 8.95 (paper), ISBN 0-87773-266-3; 0-394-72338-4 (Random House). A delightful and inspiring collection of passages from Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Einstein, de Broglie, Jeans, Planck and Eddington, in which these architects of modern physics do not talk physics but what lies beyond: metaphysics, religion and mysticism. Even though their cormnon scientific specialism flavours their metaphysics, much of what is said by the contributors concerns biologists and psychologists as well as physicists. There is variety enough: Heisenberg's precise analyses of, among other things, the role of the beautiful and its immediate recognition in the progression of science. There is Eddington's essays, both witty and profound, on the essence of the world: mind-stuff rather than the physical aspects. Or Schroedinger's uncompromising mysticism: the plurality of individual minds is only an appearance; there is only one mind of which 'individual minds' are merely aspects, not even parts. It is a pity that Pauli's essay "the influence of archetypal ideas on Kepler's construction of scientific theories", written together with

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