Science Quotes by Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

…separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

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Werner Heisenberg

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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Werner Heisenberg

It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron… Instead it seems more reasonable to try to establish a theoretical quantum mechanics, analogous to classical mechanics, but in which only relations between observable quantities occur.

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Werner Heisenberg

It was about three o’clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me … At first I was deeply shaken … I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house … and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.

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Werner Heisenberg

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

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Werner Heisenberg

The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical kind. To give an example: we know that the radium atom emits alpha-radiation. Quantum theory can give us an indication of the probability that the alpha-particle will leave the nucleus in unit time, but it cannot predict at what precise point in time the emission will occur, for this is uncertain in principle.

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Werner Heisenberg

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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Werner Heisenberg

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

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