--- title: "6 Particles Quotes By Werner Heisenberg" description: "6 Particles quotes by Werner Heisenberg. Plus more from Werner Heisenberg and more Particles sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/werner-heisenberg-4501_atoms_t-he-atoms-or-elementary-particles-thems_842631.jpg" --- > [ \[T\]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/t-he-atoms-or-elementary-particles-themselves-are-not-real-they-form/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/werner-heisenberg-4501_atoms_t-he-atoms-or-elementary-particles-thems_842631.jpg) > [The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/the-solution-of-the-difficulty-is-that-the-two-mental-pictures-which/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f64/werner-heisenberg-4501_accurate_the-solution-of-the-difficulty-is-that-t_904424.jpg) > [The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/the-conception-of-objective-reality-has-thus-evaporated-into-the/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/018/werner-heisenberg-4501_behavior_the-conception-of-objective-reality-has_1350288.jpg) > [Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/both-matter-and-radiation-possess-a-remarkable-duality-of-character/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/werner-heisenberg-4501_character_both-matter-and-radiation-possess-a-rema_2013637.jpg) > [We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/we-will-have-to-abandon-the-philosophy-of-democritus-and-the-concept/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a52/werner-heisenberg-4501_abandon_we-will-have-to-abandon-the-philosophy-o_2572933.jpg) > [The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/the-incomplete-knowledge-of-a-system-must-be-an-essential-part-of/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ed/werner-heisenberg-4501_alphas_the-incomplete-knowledge-of-a-system-mus_2706137.jpg) ## Other authors on Particles - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/particles/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-isaac-newton-44709.jpg) Isaac Newton 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/particles/isaac-newton/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/particles/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wayne-dyer-94637.jpg) Wayne Dyer 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/particles/wayne-dyer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-murray-gellmann-69613.jpg) Murray Gell-Mann 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/particles/murray-gell-mann/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-p-feynman-78819.jpg) Richard P. Feynman 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/particles/richard-p-feynman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-brian-greene-19509.jpg) Brian Greene 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/particles/brian-greene/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/particles/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rumi-81702.jpg) Rumi 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/particles/rumi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dan-brown-26147.jpg) Dan Brown 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/particles/dan-brown/) ## More by Werner Heisenberg > [“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/revere-those-things-beyond-science-which-really-matter-and-about/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/in-the-history-of-science-ever-since-the-famous-trial-of-galileo-it/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) > [The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/the-more-closely-you-look-at-one-thing-the-less-closely-can-you-see/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/i-think-that-if-a-united-states-of-europe-were-to-be-formed-it-would/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/whether-we-electrons-light-quanta-benzol-molecules-or-stones-we-shall/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/it-is-probably-true-quite-generally-that-in-the-history-of-human/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) > [If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/if-we-made-atomic-bombs-we-would-bring-about-a-terrible-change-in-the/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/the-positivists-have-a-simple-solution-the-world-must-be-divided-into/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) > [“what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning’.77”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/what-we-observe-is-not-nature-itself-but-nature-exposed-to-our-method/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) > [A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/a-consistent-pursuit-of-classical-physics-forces-a-transformation-in/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 ...… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/it-was-about-three-o-clock-at-night-when-the-final-result-of-the/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) > [Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/only-a-few-know-how-much-one-must-know-to-know-how-little-one-knows/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) > [“We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/we-have-to-remember-that-what-we-observe-is-not-nature-in-itself-but/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/i-think-that-modern-physics-has-definitely-decided-in-favor-of-plato/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/the-end-of-the-first-world-war-had-thrown-germany-s-youth-into-great/) [Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/particles/werner-heisenberg/#itemlist", "name": "6 Particles Quotes By Werner Heisenberg", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Werner Heisenberg" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/t-he-atoms-or-elementary-particles-themselves-are-not-real-they-form/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/werner-heisenberg-4501_atoms_t-he-atoms-or-elementary-particles-thems_842631.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/werner-heisenberg-4501_atoms_t-he-atoms-or-elementary-particles-thems_842631.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/werner-heisenberg-4501_atoms_t-he-atoms-or-elementary-particles-thems_842631.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or…” — Werner Heisenberg", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Werner Heisenberg" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/the-solution-of-the-difficulty-is-that-the-two-mental-pictures-which/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f64/werner-heisenberg-4501_accurate_the-solution-of-the-difficulty-is-that-t_904424.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f64/werner-heisenberg-4501_accurate_the-solution-of-the-difficulty-is-that-t_904424.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f64/werner-heisenberg-4501_accurate_the-solution-of-the-difficulty-is-that-t_904424.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of…” — Werner Heisenberg", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Werner Heisenberg" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/the-conception-of-objective-reality-has-thus-evaporated-into-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/018/werner-heisenberg-4501_behavior_the-conception-of-objective-reality-has_1350288.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/018/werner-heisenberg-4501_behavior_the-conception-of-objective-reality-has_1350288.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/018/werner-heisenberg-4501_behavior_the-conception-of-objective-reality-has_1350288.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics…” — Werner Heisenberg", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. 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