Approximation Quote by Werner Heisenberg

It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems…

— Werner Heisenberg

No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum mechanics. Of…

— Paul Dirac

The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly…

— Werner Heisenberg

“Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a…

— John Gribbin

There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.

— Lisa Randall

“One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seemingly be in more than one place…

— Marcus du Sautoy

The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known,…

— Paul Dirac

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong,

— Neil Turok

Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use…

— Wernher von Braun

Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it has proven…

— Ravi Gomatam

“The uncertainty principle “protects” quantum mechanics. Heisenberg recognized that if it were possible to measure the momentum and the position simultaneously with a greater…

— Richard P. Feynman

“The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of how a self-aware substructure…

— Max Tegmark