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Werner Heisenberg Quotes

Werner Heisenberg quotes

Deutsch Physicist December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976

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In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I an now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on, Thus in the course of my life I... Werner Heisenberg
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.—to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are “true,” that they reveal a genuine feature of nature…. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared. Werner Heisenberg
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg quote: "Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature;..."
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. Werner Heisenberg
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science. Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg quote: "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to..."
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Werner Heisenberg
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies. Werner Heisenberg
The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases. Werner Heisenberg
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables. Werner Heisenberg
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language. Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg quote: "Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is..."
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg quote: "An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that..."
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them. Werner Heisenberg
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language. Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg quote: "The reality we can put into words is never reality itself."
The reality we can put into words is never reality itself. Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg quote: "There are things that are so serious that you can only joke..."
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. Werner Heisenberg

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