I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.” — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this? — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning’.77” — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
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