--- title: "11 Werner Heisenberg Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 11 Werner Heisenberg quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Werner Heisenberg sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b17/wolfgang-pauli-14510_allah_es-gibt-keinen-gott-und-dirac-ist-sein-p_3104339.jpg" --- > [“Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. ( There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet .) { A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfgang-pauli/es-gibt-keinen-gott-und-dirac-ist-sein-prophet-there-is-no-god-and/) [Wolfgang Pauli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wolfgang-pauli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b17/wolfgang-pauli-14510_allah_es-gibt-keinen-gott-und-dirac-ist-sein-p_3104339.jpg) > [The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-c-cassidy/the-quantum-entered-physics-with-a-jolt-it-didn-t-fit-anywhere-it/) [David C. Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-c-cassidy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f0/david-c-cassidy-87174_band_the-quantum-entered-physics-with-a-jolt_3178336.jpg) > [The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/the-poet-muriel-rukeyser-said-the-universe-is-composed-of-stories-not/) [Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa6/rob-brezsny-7732_atoms_the-poet-muriel-rukeyser-said-the-univer_2013690.png) > [“One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-m-lederman/one-hundred-thirty-seven-is-the-inverse-of-something-called-the-fine/) [Leon M. Lederman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-m-lederman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cd/leon-m-lederman-20865_fine-structure-const_one-hundred-thirty-seven-is-the-inverse_1558048.jpg) > [“We thus arrive at the important result: Events that are simultaneous with reference to the embankment are not simultaneous with respect to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-isaacson/we-thus-arrive-at-the-important-result-events-that-are-simultaneous/) [Walter Isaacson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-isaacson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b36/walter-isaacson-384_fitness_we-thus-arrive-at-the-important-result-e_3194516.jpg) > [“By reversing the steps that we took to advance from the concept of substance to that of Materia Prima, we can imagine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henning-genz/by-reversing-the-steps-that-we-took-to-advance-from-the-concept-of/) [Henning Genz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henning-genz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/494/henning-genz-4557_empty-space_by-reversing-the-steps-that-we-took-to-a_763872.jpg) > [“Why does the theory of evolution provoke such objections, whereas nobody seems to care about the theory of relativity or quantum mechanics?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke-such-objections-whereas-2/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f50/yuval-noah-harari-100_first-sight_why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke_1283385.jpg) > [“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/even-if-it-were-possible-to-cast-my-horoscope-in-this-one-life-and-to/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a11/christopher-hitchens-117_antidepressants_even-if-it-were-possible-to-cast-my-horo_1390645.jpg) > [“Michał Grynberg, ed., Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, trans. Philip Boehm (London: Granta Books, 2003), p. 46.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-ackerman/micha-grynberg-ed-words-to-outlive-us-eyewitness-accounts-from-the/) [Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-ackerman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc2/diane-ackerman-1035_books_micha-grynberg-ed-words-to-outlive-us-ey_2981395.png) > [“Why does the theory of evolution provoke such objections, whereas nobody seems to care about the theory of relativity or quantum mechanics?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke-such-objections-whereas/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/yuval-noah-harari-100_first-sight_why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke_849304.jpg) > [“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-du-sautoy/to-understand-this-new-frontier-i-will-have-to-try-to-master-one-of/) [Marcus du Sautoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-du-sautoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/781/marcus-du-sautoy-18436_absurd_to-understand-this-new-frontier-i-will-h_3025248.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/werner-heisenberg/#itemlist", "name": "Werner Heisenberg Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. 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Although Einstein refrained from saying that this leap was as truly “revolutionary” as the one he made about light quanta, it did in fact transform science. “This was a change in the very foundation of physics, an unexpected and very radical change that required all the courage of a young and revolutionary genius,” noted Werner Heisenberg, who later contributed to a similar feat with his principle of quantum uncertainty.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Walter Isaacson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-isaacson/we-thus-arrive-at-the-important-result-events-that-are-simultaneous/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b36/walter-isaacson-384_fitness_we-thus-arrive-at-the-important-result-e_3194516.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b36/walter-isaacson-384_fitness_we-thus-arrive-at-the-important-result-e_3194516.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b36/walter-isaacson-384_fitness_we-thus-arrive-at-the-important-result-e_3194516.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We thus arrive at the important result: Events that are simultaneous with reference to the embankment are…” — Walter Isaacson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“By reversing the steps that we took to advance from the concept of substance to that of Materia Prima, we can imagine building up our universe: the homogeneous basic substance, Materia Prima, contains all the possibilities that the laws of nature will permit. There is no such thing as empty space into which our material world is introduced- that is what Aristotle preached, and modern physics agrees with him. The empty space known to it- the physical vacuum- has characteristics that Aristotle gave his Materia Prima. Werner Heisenberg characterized Aristotle's matter in the following way \"Aristotle's matter is certainly not a given substance such as say water or air; also it is not just simply space. 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How come politicians don’t ask that kids be exposed to alternative theories about matter, energy, space and time? After all, Darwin’s ideas seem at first sight far less threatening than the monstrosities of Einstein and Werner Heisenberg. The theory of evolution rests on the principle of the survival of the fittest, which is a clear and simple – not to say humdrum – idea. In contrast, the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics argue that you can twist time and space, that something can appear out of nothing, and that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time. This makes a mockery of our common sense, yet nobody seeks to protect innocent schoolchildren from these scandalous ideas. Why? The”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yuval Noah Harari" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke-such-objections-whereas-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f50/yuval-noah-harari-100_first-sight_why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke_1283385.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f50/yuval-noah-harari-100_first-sight_why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke_1283385.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f50/yuval-noah-harari-100_first-sight_why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke_1283385.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Why does the theory of evolution provoke such objections, whereas nobody seems to care about the theory of…” — Yuval Noah Harari", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office—the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement—is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Hitchens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/even-if-it-were-possible-to-cast-my-horoscope-in-this-one-life-and-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a11/christopher-hitchens-117_antidepressants_even-if-it-were-possible-to-cast-my-horo_1390645.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a11/christopher-hitchens-117_antidepressants_even-if-it-were-possible-to-cast-my-horo_1390645.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a11/christopher-hitchens-117_antidepressants_even-if-it-were-possible-to-cast-my-horo_1390645.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my…” — Christopher Hitchens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Michał Grynberg, ed., Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, trans. Philip Boehm (London: Granta Books, 2003), p. 46. At one point Himmler invited Werner Heisenberg to establish an institute to study icy stars because, according to the cosmology of Welteislehre, based on the observations of the Austrian Hanns Hörbiger (author of Glazial-Kosmogonie[1913]), most bodies in the solar system, our moon included, are giant icebergs. A refrigeration engineer, Hörbiger was persuaded by how shiny the moon and planets appeared at night, and also by Norse mythology, in which the solar system emerged from a gigantic collision between fire and ice, with ice winning. Hörbiger died in 1931, but his theory became popular among Nazi scientists and Hitler swore that the unusually cold winters in the 1940s proved the reality of Welteislehre. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's The Occult Roots of Nazism explores the influence of such magnetic lunatics as Karl Maria Wiligut, \"the Private Magus of Heinrich Himmler,\" whose doctrines influenced SS ideology, logos, ceremonies, and the image of its members as latter-day Knights Templars and future breeding stock for the coming Aryan utopia. To this end, Himmler founded Ahnenerbe, an institute for the study of German prehistory, archaeology, and race, whose staff wore SS uniforms. Himmler also acquired Wewelsburg Castle in Westphalia to use immediately for SS education and pseudoreligious ceremonies, and remodel into a future site altogether more ambitious, \"creating an SS vati-can on an enormous scale at the center of the millenarian greater Germanic Reich.\"   \"In”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Diane Ackerman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-ackerman/micha-grynberg-ed-words-to-outlive-us-eyewitness-accounts-from-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc2/diane-ackerman-1035_books_micha-grynberg-ed-words-to-outlive-us-ey_2981395.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc2/diane-ackerman-1035_books_micha-grynberg-ed-words-to-outlive-us-ey_2981395.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc2/diane-ackerman-1035_books_micha-grynberg-ed-words-to-outlive-us-ey_2981395.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Michał Grynberg, ed., Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, trans. Philip Boehm…” — Diane Ackerman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Why does the theory of evolution provoke such objections, whereas nobody seems to care about the theory of relativity or quantum mechanics? How come politicians don't ask that kids be exposed to alternative theories about matter, energy, space and time? After all, Darwin's ideas seem at first sight far less threatening than the monstrosities of Einstein and Werner Heisenberg. The theory of evolution rests on the principle of the survival of the fittest, which is a clear and simple - not to say humdrum - idea. In contrast, the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics argue that you can twist time and space, that something can appear out of nothing, and that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time. This makes a mockery of our common sense, yet nobody seeks to protect innocent schoolchildren from these scandalous ideas. Why? The theory of relativity makes nobody angry, because it doesn't contradict any of our cherished beliefs. Most people don't care an iota whether space and time are absolute or relative. If you think it is possible to bend space and time, well, be my guest. Go ahead and bend them. What do I care? In contrast, Darwin has deprived us of our souls. If you really understand the theory of evolution, you understand that there is no soul. This is a terrifying thought not only to devout Christians and Muslims, but also to many secular people who don't hold any clear religious dogma, but nevertheless want to believe that each human posseses an eternal individual essence that remains unchanged throughout life, and can survive even death intact.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yuval Noah Harari" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke-such-objections-whereas/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/yuval-noah-harari-100_first-sight_why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke_849304.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/yuval-noah-harari-100_first-sight_why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke_849304.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/yuval-noah-harari-100_first-sight_why-does-the-theory-of-evolution-provoke_849304.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Why does the theory of evolution provoke such objections, whereas nobody seems to care about the theory of…” — Yuval Noah Harari", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded in the annals of science: quantum physics. Listen to those who have spent their lives immersed in this world and you will have a sense of the challenge we face. After making his groundbreaking discoveries in quantum physics, Werner Heisenberg recalled, \"I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?\" Einstein declared after one discovery, \"If it is correct it signifies the end of science.\" Schrödinger was so shocked by the implications of what he'd cooked up that he admitted, \"I do not like it and I am sorry I had anything to do with it.\" Nevertheless, quantum physics is now one of the most powerful and well-tested pieces of science on the books. Nothing has come close to pushing it off its pedestal as one of the great scientific achievements of the last century. So there is nothing to do but to dive headfirst into this uncertain world. 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