Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that…

People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert…

— Adolf von Harnack

Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although…

— Al Gore

“I do not even know what a matrix is,” Heisenberg complained to Jordan. As”

— William H. Cropper

Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets of states…

— Linus Pauling

“When { Born and Heisenberg and the Göttingen theoretical physicists} first discovered matrix mechanics they were having, of course, the same kind of trouble…

— Anonymous

“Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.”

— Pat Cadigan

“One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that it is…

— Leon M. Lederman

“In early 1945 Berg did go to Switzerland, as depicted here a bit earlier, to kill Heisenberg if necessary. Sitting in the front row…

— Gregory Benford

“For you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all…

— Alan Moore

“Margrethe: And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world? Our ruined…

— Michael Frayn

“Having invited these performances in the first place, the media justified covering them because they were receiving media attention... The result was to make…

— Neal Gabler

“Many scientists have tried to make determinism and complementarity the basis of conclusions that seem to me weak and dangerous; for instance, they have…

— Louis de Broglie

“The uncertainty principle “protects” quantum mechanics. Heisenberg recognized that if it were possible to measure the momentum and the position simultaneously with a greater…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states that to determine the precise location of a particle will only speed up the particle. The same goes for a…

— Weike Wang

[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.

— Abraham Pais