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

~ Werner Heisenberg #BoTD 1901

Werner Heisenberg (1901 – 1976)was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. He is known for the uncertainty principle,which he published in 1927.Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics".

"Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows."
~ Werner Heisenberg

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

"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."
~ Werner Heisenberg

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

"The reality we can put into words is never reality itself."
~ Werner Heisenberg

"Looking at something changes it."
~ Werner Heisenberg

"... one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them."
~ Werner Heisenberg

"The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it."
~ Werner Heisenberg

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

"I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language."
~ Werner Heisenberg

"It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth."
~ Werner Heisenberg

"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts."
~ Werner Heisenberg

"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them."
~ Werner Heisenberg

"Unless you stake your life, life will not be won."
~ Werner Heisenberg

"Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way,the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings,and at the end can lie only negation and despair.Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics,and ethics the presupposition of life." Heisenberg

"There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality."
~ Werner Heisenberg

...the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human nature, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions...

"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

"The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent."
~ Werner Heisenberg