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No Building Blocks:
"Starting with the elementary viewpoint: you get a few things and put them together… The Darwinian idea. At his time the smallest thing you knew much about, you could look at it with a microscope, was a cell. We had again, Dalton, and his atoms, but not much was known about them in physics and basic chemistry. It came as a pretty nice idea from Darwin that he could seem to find the same cells occurring in all the things. You could say he started with the simplest cells and built up to the more complex cells. Cells were the building blocks.
"We have to note that man loves the idea of a building block. Man has a tremendous propensity for one thing. He wants the key. He loves to talk about the building block or the key.
“What the modern physicist has found, and what Oppenheimer was giving us in his farewell address on TV (although it was not his discovery) was the idea of fundamental complementarity. We discover that we are dealing in a Universe of functions and there is a plurality of unique patterns. They are not the same patterns and fundamental complementarity means that you”
