Werner Heisenberg

Physicist, Quantum Mechanics Pioneer



Quotes by Werner Heisenberg

"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

"Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created." - Werner Heisenberg

"After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense." - Werner Heisenberg

"The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it." - Werner Heisenberg

"The very act of observing disturbs the system." - 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

"The same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds." - Werner Heisenberg

"The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior." - Werner Heisenberg

"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts." - Werner Heisenberg

"Looking at something changes it." - Werner Heisenberg

"Separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible." - Werner Heisenberg

"It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet." - 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

"The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however." - Werner Heisenberg

"The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa." - Werner Heisenberg

"Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves" - Werner Heisenberg

"Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The scientific method ... changes and transforms its object: the procedure can no longer keep its distance from the object." - Werner Heisenberg

"Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular." - Werner Heisenberg

"Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different" - 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."" - Werner Heisenberg

"Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think." - Werner Heisenberg

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