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> [“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli 's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/if-we-wanted-to-construct-a-basic-philosophical-attitude-from-these/)

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## 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/)

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