After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of…

“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”

— Werner Heisenberg

“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with…

— Werner Heisenberg

The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

— Werner Heisenberg

I think that if a United States of Europe were to be formed, it would be in our interests to fight for it, as…

— Werner Heisenberg

Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.

— Werner Heisenberg

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where…

— Werner Heisenberg

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

— Werner Heisenberg

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had…

— Werner Heisenberg

“what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning’.77”

— Werner Heisenberg

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

— Werner Heisenberg

It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ...…

— Werner Heisenberg

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

— Werner Heisenberg

“We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ”

— Werner Heisenberg

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in…

— Werner Heisenberg

The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of…

— Werner Heisenberg