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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 more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.
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Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.
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...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
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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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It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
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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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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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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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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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Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
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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 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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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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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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A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.
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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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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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Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
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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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