Best Werner Heisenberg Quotes
- The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent. Error
- By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further… Division
- The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it. Existence
- The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds. All
- Looking at something changes it. Changes
- In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of… Able
- Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now… Both
- The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to… Actual
- What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Exposed
- Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability. Applicability
- The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other… Accurate
- Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it… Connection
- Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created. Been
- Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. Engineering
- I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the… Decided
- If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.—to forms that… Almost Frightening
- The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting… Atheism
- The reality we can put into words is never reality itself. Funny
- There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. Ability
- [T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts. Atoms
- An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them. Avoid
- Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics Allows
- It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. Absolute