“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… — 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… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
One may say that in a state of science where fundamental concepts have to be changed, tradition is both the condition for… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass… — 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
The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that… — 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
