Hans-Peter Dürr: The spiritual is the driving force
Let's say I mean I'm a dyed-in-the-wool quantum physicist. So that means that I fully consciously took part in this development that took place at the beginning of this century. It started with Planck, with Einstein and so on. But the important thing is that Planck and Einstein, who started this development, actually didn't believe it. Because they interfered, uncertainty principle and so on and then quantum physics and so on. They said it can only be a transitional stage. And it was the young people, Werner Heisenberg, in whose office I am sitting here, Werner Heisenberg at the age of twenty, who said: this is the breakthrough! We need to see reality totally differently. No longer material, but much more open. For these people, the difficulty then arose: how can something that is so open, which could also include people at once, because we never wanted to submit to determinism, because we naturally thought of ourselves as creative. In such an open world, how can you ever ...
