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Dedicating one’s life to the task of exploring particular relations within nature automatically leads one to ask again and again how those particular relations arrange themselves harmonically into the whole, the way life, or the world present itself to us.
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The German word Geist challenges the translator in that it cannot consistently be translated as mind. There are times when the more accurate rendition has to be spirit (the “s” in lower case) or Spirit (upper case “S”). Another translation is intellect. The context determines which term is used in each case. (Trans. note.)
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The two quotations are from the long poem: “The Star of the Covenant” by Stefan George, in: Poems – Rendered into English, New York: Pantheon Books, Inc., 1943, 210. (Transl. note.)
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Heisenberg, W. (2019). Reality and Its Order. In: Kleinknecht, K. (eds) Reality and Its Order. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25696-8_2
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