The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else. Werner Heisenberg More Quotes by Werner Heisenberg More Quotes From Werner Heisenberg I believe that the existence of the classical "path" can be pregnantly formulated as follows: The "path" comes into existence only when we observe it. Werner Heisenberg i-believepathbelieve There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. Werner Heisenberg atheismseriousreligion The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite. Werner Heisenberg understoodinfinitereality The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects. Werner Heisenberg atomsfundamentalsideas It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. Werner Heisenberg truthspirituallying The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds. Werner Heisenberg responsiblestructuremind My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. Werner Heisenberg platomindphilosophy The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent. Werner Heisenberg silentlearningerrors Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding' Werner Heisenberg understandingspiritualmay Science clears the fields on which technology can build. Werner Heisenberg technologyfields Unless you stake your life, life will not be won. Werner Heisenberg stakes 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. Werner Heisenberg ontologyimpossibleworld Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves Werner Heisenberg natural-sciencenaturaldoe 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 silencesimplephilosophy Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the course of the centuries a human language by which we can speak about the more remote parts of reality, and the coherent sets of concepts as well as the different styles of art are different words or groups of words in this language. Werner Heisenberg tworealityart 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. Werner Heisenberg naturesciencemean The very act of observing disturbs the system. Werner Heisenberg observing 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. Werner Heisenberg uncertainty-principlefuturelaw Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments. Werner Heisenberg experiments Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created. Werner Heisenberg has-beenstoolsspirit
