I do not even know what a matrix is,” Heisenberg…

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

[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

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, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

— Harry Dean Stanton

“...Heisenberg removed the conceit that the workings of Nature should necessarily accord with common sense.”

— Brian Cox Jeff Forshaw