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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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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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My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
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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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The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.
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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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Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'
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The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
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After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
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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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Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.
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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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Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with a given velocity, and can we make these approximations so close that they do not cause experimental difficulties?
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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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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.
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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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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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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 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.
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
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