Werner Heisenberg Quotes
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Werner Heisenberg Quotes & Sayings
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When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.
— Werner Heisenberg
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.
— Werner Heisenberg
The very act of observing disturbs the system.
— Werner Heisenberg
Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.
— Werner Heisenberg
The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.
— Werner Heisenberg
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
— Werner Heisenberg
Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
— Werner Heisenberg
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
— Werner Heisenberg
Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
— Werner Heisenberg
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
— Werner Heisenberg
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
— Werner Heisenberg
Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
— Werner Heisenberg
Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.
— Werner Heisenberg
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
— Werner Heisenberg
"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
— Werner Heisenberg
The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.
— Werner Heisenberg
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
— Werner Heisenberg
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
— Werner Heisenberg
Separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
— Werner Heisenberg
The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.
— Werner Heisenberg
The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.
— Werner Heisenberg
The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.
— Werner Heisenberg
I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.
— Werner Heisenberg
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
— Werner Heisenberg
A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.
— Werner Heisenberg
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
— Werner Heisenberg
Science clears the fields on which technology can build.
— Werner Heisenberg
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
— Werner Heisenberg
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
— Werner Heisenberg
Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics
— Werner Heisenberg
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[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
— Werner Heisenberg
The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
— Werner Heisenberg
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
— Werner Heisenberg
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
— Werner Heisenberg