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Werner Heisenberg
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Werner Heisenberg
Age: 74 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 5
Died: 1976
Died: February 1
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Kreisfreie Stadt Würzburg
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The very act of observing disturbs the system.
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The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects.
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It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
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We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.
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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
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Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.
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My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
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In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise. On an implication of the uncertainty principle.
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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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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.
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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.
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An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
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Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
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