"The 'path' comes into existence only when we…" — Werner Heisenberg
"The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it."
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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 Existence Quotes
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
— David Attenborough
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
— David Bailey
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
— Henry Adams
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
— Charles Baudelaire
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