"What we observe is not nature itself, but……" — Werner Heisenberg
"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
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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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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never…
— Stanley Baldwin
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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed…
— Martha Beck
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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides.…
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My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are…
— Juliette Binoche
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not…
— Daniel Boone
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I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work…
— William S. Burroughs
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been…
— Fred Allen
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One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very…
— Eric Clapton
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Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence…
— Criss Angel
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Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed…
— Rick Warren
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Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
— James F. Cooper
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need…
— Frederick Douglass
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