All Werner Heisenberg Quotes
- Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular. Always Come
- It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more… All
- What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about… Answer
- ...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible. From
- It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At… Awaited
- There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute… Atomized
- Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed… Certain
- The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but… Behavior
- Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The… Changes
- The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical… Alpha
- You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly… Admit
- I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century. All
- Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and… Able
- Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a… From
- When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have… Answer
- The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak… Atoms
- The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field… Assumption
- After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. Conversation
- The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better… All
- My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. Formed