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

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


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When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.



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

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



Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.



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

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



After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.



[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.

[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.



"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."



The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.



Looking at something changes it.

Looking at something changes it.



The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.





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There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.



Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.

Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.



Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.



They that die by famine die by inches.

They that die by famine die by inches.



Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.



Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.

Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.



Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.



If you look at government policy generally, what government tries to do in all instances is to make sure that we take care of all elements that might relate to a particular issue.

If you look at government policy generally, what government tries to do in all instances is to make sure that we take care of all elements that might relate to a particular issue.



For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.




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