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Audio: Werner Heisenberg on the problems of language

20 Nov 2009

Heisenberg talks about language as a ‘dangerous instrument’, its unsuitability for describing realities within physics and quantum theory, and how the problems of language are dealt with in the late philosophy of Wittgenstein.

This interview was conducted by David Peat and Paul Buckley, and kindly provided by David Peat.

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