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From Quotes by Werner Heisenberg
- 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…
- ...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started…
- 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…
- 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…
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