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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Werner Heisenberg
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Werner Heisenberg
Age: 74 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 5
Died: 1976
Died: February 1
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Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
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Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.
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Looking at something changes it.
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I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.
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Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
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