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There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

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Werner Heisenberg
Age: 74 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 5
Died: 1976
Died: February 1
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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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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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A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.
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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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[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.
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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.
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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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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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The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
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Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
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Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
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The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.
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In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.
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