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The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.
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
Werner Karl Heisenberg
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The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.
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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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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 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.
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Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics
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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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The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
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The very act of observing disturbs the system.
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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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Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
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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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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.
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The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.
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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
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The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.
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The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a priori assumptions about the meaning of the word understand.
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves
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The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.
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The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
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