Characteristics Quote by Werner Heisenberg

“Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.”

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“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”

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The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

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I think that if a United States of Europe were to be formed, it would be in our interests to fight for it, as…

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If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

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The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had…

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“what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning’.77”

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A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

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It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ...…

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Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

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“We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ”

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