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

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Humor Serious

Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Life Lessons Philosophy Physics

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Knowledge Philosophy Science Unknowing

I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Political Philosophy Politics Wisdom

In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I an now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on, Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of though, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Religion Science

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Expertise Knowledge Mistakes

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Particles Physics Quantum Reality Science Strange

Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Known Learn Meaning Proceed Science Understand Understanding Unknown

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Metaphor Models Physics Quantum Mechanics

[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.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Physics Quantum Mechanics Quantum Physics

Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advances made in this field by Dirac ... leave open the question whether it will be possible to satisfy the claims of the two theories without at the same time determining the Sommerfeld fine-structure constant.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Fine Structure Constant Physics Quantum Theory Relativity

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Ability Achievement

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Science Explain Natural

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Questioning Observe Itself

Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Life Connections Question

The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.

~ Werner Heisenberg

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