Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron…

It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems…

— 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

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

— Lev Landau

There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature.…

— A. D. Patel

No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness…

— Edgard Varese

“Luckily, there's a neat approximation formula for just this sum. The higher the number n, the better the estimate will be. It is mathematically…

— Metin Bektas

Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest…

— Sri Aurobindo

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an…

— John Dos Passos

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

— John von Neumann

I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

— John Maynard Keynes

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor…

— George Sarton

No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this…

— Andrew Ng

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

— Emmett Tyrrell

“I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make…

— Paola Kaufmann