This proving of such and such I found to be almost like cheating. You start somewhere, and then you go into a dark tunnel, and then you come out at another place. You find that you have proved what you wanted to prove, but in the tunnel, you don’t see anything. Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this? Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated. Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experiments many times, we can finally derive from the observations statistical distributions, and by repeating such series of experiments, we can arrive at objective statements concerning these distributions. Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals; it does not restrict, for example, the exactness of a position measurement alone or a velocity measurement alone. Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
Our house was destroyed in 1943, and I moved the family to a cottage I owned before the war in the Bavarian Alps. This cottage was meant for a very few people, and at the end of the war, there were about 13 people in this very small house. Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability. Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities. Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
Certainly, in the course of time, the splendid things will separate from the hateful. Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
