Werner Heisenberg Quotes About Quantum Physics

Quotes about: Quantum Physics

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

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Perception, Quantum Physics

  Physics and Philosophy (1958)

• [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.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Real, Atoms, World

• 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

  Time, Philosophy, Crazy

  "Pride of India". Book by Samskrita Bharati, 2006.

• Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Light, Two, Molecules

  Werner Heisenberg (1971). “Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations”

• Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with a given velocity, and can we make these approximations so close that they do not cause experimental difficulties?

  Werner Heisenberg

  Moving, Velocity, Causes

  Werner Heisenberg (1985). “Gesammelte Werke”, Springer

• The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Ideas, Fundamentals, Neutrons

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