Werner Heisenberg Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

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.

The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.

Separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.

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.

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.

Science clears the fields on which technology can build.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics
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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.

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.