Quotes by Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

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

Observation

Science

Separation

“Uncertainty” is NOT “I don’t know.” It is “I can’t know.” “I am uncertain” does not mean “I could be certain.”

Arrogance

Doe

Mean Girls

[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.

Atoms

Real

World

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

Heart

Physics

Transformation

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

Failure

Math

Mistake

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

Character

Different

Two

I believe that the existence of the classical “path” can be pregnantly formulated as follows: The “path” comes into existence only when we observe it.

Believe

I Believe

Path

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

Discovery

Science

Thinking

If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty – by forms I am referring to coherent systems of hypothesis, 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 relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.

Etc

Simplicity

Thinking

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

Ideas

Progress

Scientist

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Accepting

Answers

Arrogance

Art

Atheism

Atoms

Believe

Bird

Blue

Character

Cutting

Determined

Different

Discovery

Doe

Environmental

Errors

Etc

Failure

Feelings

Fundamentals

Heart

I Believe

Ideas

Impossible

Incomplete Knowledge

Infinite

Know How

Knows

Law

Learning

Littles

Math

May

Mean

Mean Girls

Mechanic

Mind

Mistake

Momentum

Moving On

Natural

Natural Science

Nature

Night

Observation

Observing

Ontology

Ordinary

Path

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Quotes by Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

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

“Uncertainty” is NOT “I don’t know.” It is “I can’t know.” “I am uncertain” does not mean “I could be certain.”

[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.

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

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

I believe that the existence of the classical “path” can be pregnantly formulated as follows: The “path” comes into existence only when we observe it.

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

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