The quantum theory stands for a kind of anti-intellectualism or mysticism. Some historians of science, noting the cultural environment of the pioneers of quantum physics, claim that these physicists had a strong philosophical preference for indeterminism. German physicists and mathematicians were under social and intellectual pressure from the particular anti-intellectual spirit of the Weimar culture, which made them anxious to adopt or at least to emphasize those parts of science that could play up to the cravings of the public. This spirit, as exemplified by Spengler´s book "The Decline of the West", accomodated anti-determinism, acausality, existentialism, vitalism, Husserl´s phenomenology, holism, Gestalt psychology, mathematical intuitionism and also an interest in Pythagorean numerology, alchemy and kabbalism. A non-scientific factor - a philosophical attitude, a social or intellectual environment - precedes science itself and "causes" the form it takes. Science now finds itself in a strange predicament and is faced with great difficulty. Then there is the other type of knowledge which does not come within the understanding of a person unless he is fully learned and transformed. And Lao Tzu's knowledge is not for the simple man. The man must be transformed, that is to say, a certain alchemy has to be passed through. Then only can Lao Tzu be understood. Otherwise, he cannot be understood. The experience of the discoverers of the biggest scientific discoveries have been that they were unable to discover what they were out to discover as long as they searched consciously. Even the scientists who have received the Nobel Prize say, "Whatever we have known has never been known through our effort." In a moment of complete inaction, when there was no striving within, something rose from within and the answer came.
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