"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 si...

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












More Werner Heisenberg quotes
"Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
"Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images...
"In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the ...
"Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.
"Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'un...
"Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those ...
"Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.