Holiday Quote by Werner Heisenberg
“In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.”
“In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.”
![“[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.” quote by Abraham Pais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c80/abraham-pais-24808_century_heisenberg-s-seminal-1925-paper-initiati_2288059.jpg)
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![“Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. [quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 54]” quote by Augustine of Hippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c2/augustine-of-hippo-2589_change_time-takes-no-holiday-it-does-not-roll-i_22609.jpg)