The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli 's, at first we would be inclined… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in… — 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
