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Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.
Werner Heisenberg
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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
Heisenberg
Werner K. Heisenberg
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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise. On an implication of the uncertainty principle.
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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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Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
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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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Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
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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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Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
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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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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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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves
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The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a priori assumptions about the meaning of the word understand.
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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 more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
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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. 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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...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
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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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Looking at something changes it.
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