""Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is……" — Werner Heisenberg
""Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain.""
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48 Quotes by Werner Heisenberg
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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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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
— Joe Biden
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
— Theodore Bikel
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness…
— Alain de Botton
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It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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