"Every word or concept, clear as it may……" — Werner Heisenberg
"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."
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48 Quotes by Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg has 48 quotes on this site.
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Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular…
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It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the…
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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics…
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...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
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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]…
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There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be…
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Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception…
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The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer…
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Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay…
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The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws…
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You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly…
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I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in…
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More Applicability Quotes
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An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious…
— Reginald Fessenden
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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds…
— Albert Einstein
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things…
— Albert Einstein
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From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation…
— John Gorrie
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Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms?…
— Noam Chomsky
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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure…
— Horace
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The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction…
— Raymond Louis Wilder
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces…
— Karl Jaspers
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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Genius is power, talent is applicability.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels…
— Tom Shippey
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