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Werner Heisenberg

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


— Werner Heisenberg


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The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.


— Werner Heisenberg


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


— Werner Heisenberg


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Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.


— Werner Heisenberg


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


— Werner Heisenberg


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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.


— Werner Heisenberg


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Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.


— Werner Heisenberg


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


— Werner Heisenberg


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About Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg Quotes




Did you know about Werner Heisenberg?

His thinking on Dirac's theory and further development of the theory were set forth in two papers. Per Heisenberg. In Heisenberg's tenure at Leipzig the quality of doctoral students post-graduate and research associates who studied and worked with Heisenberg there is attested to by the acclaim later earned by these people; at various times they included: Erich Bagge Felix Bloch Ugo Fano Siegfried Flügge William Vermillion Houston Friedrich Hund Robert S.

He also made important contributions to the theories of the hydrodynamics of turbulent flows the atomic nucleus ferromagnetism cosmic rays and subatomic particles and he was instrumental in planning the first West German nuclear reactor at Karlsruhe together with a research reactor in Munich in 1957. Heisenberg along with Max Born and Pascual Jordan set forth the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics in 1925. Considerable controversy surrounds his work on atomic research during World War II.

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