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Werner Heisenberg
Age: 74 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 5
Died: 1976
Died: February 1
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Nuclear Physicist
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Kreisfreie Stadt Würzburg
Werner Karl Heisenberg
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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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It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
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Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.
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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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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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Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
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Looking at something changes it.
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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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Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The scientific method ... changes and transforms its object: the procedure can no longer keep its distance from the object.
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Uncertainty is NOT I don't know. It is I can't know. I am uncertain does not mean I could be certain.
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I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
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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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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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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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There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.
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Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
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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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Science clears the fields on which technology can build.
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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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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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