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Science clears the fields on which technology can build.
Werner Heisenberg
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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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Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.
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My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
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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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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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The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.
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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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Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.
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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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The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
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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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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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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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The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.
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Looking at something changes it.
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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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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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