Werner Heisenberg Quotes

• Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Littles, Know How, Knows

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• Lo que observamos no es la naturaleza en sí, sino la naturaleza expuesta a nuestro método de interrogación.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Perception, Quantum Physics

  Physics and Philosophy (1958)

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• Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Reality, Thinking

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• The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Looks, One Thing

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• The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Realidad

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• Looking at something changes it.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Las cosas cambian

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• Después de las conversaciones sobre la filosofía india, algunas de las ideas de la Física Cuántica que habían parecido tan descabelladas de repente tenían mucho más sentido.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Time, Philosophy, Crazy

  "Pride of India". Book by Samskrita Bharati, 2006.

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• "Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."

  Werner Heisenberg

  Mean Girls, Arrogance, Doe

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• It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Spiritual, Truth, Lying

  "Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science". Book by Werner Heisenberg, 1958.

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• When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Believe, Two, Answers

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• The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Path, Existence

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• [T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

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  Real, Atoms, World

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• Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.

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  Mistake, People, Experts

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• The very act of observing disturbs the system.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Observación

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• Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Estacas

  1969 Der Teil und das Ganze, translated by A J Pomerans as Physics and Beyond (1971).

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• 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

  Plato, Thinking, Ideas

  Werner Heisenberg (1970). “Natural law and the structure of matter”

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• The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

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  Mind, Responsible, Structure

  Werner Heisenberg (1971). “Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations”

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• There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

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  Religion, Atheism, Serious

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• By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Division, Fundamentals

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• There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Mistake, Reality, Errors

  "Physics from Wholeness : Dynamical Totality as a Conceptual Foundation for Physical Theories". Book by Barbara Piechocinska, 2005.

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• Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Lying, Suffering, Despair

  Werner Heisenberg (1990). “Across the frontiers”, Ox Bow Pr

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• The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.

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  Reality, Infinite, Understood

  "Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science". Book by Werner Heisenberg, 1958.

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• What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Naturaleza, Media, Ciencia

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• ...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Separation, Observation

  Werner Heisenberg (1990). “Across the frontiers”, Ox Bow Pr

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• Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'

  Werner Heisenberg

  Spiritual, Understanding, May

  "Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science". Book by Werner Heisenberg, 1958.

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