Uncertainty Principle Quotes

• Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

  Dan Millman

  Faith, Letting Go, Spiritual

  Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.55, H J Kramer

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• Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Momentum, Determined, Position

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• Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." In other words, if there isn't a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a physical possibility. (The reason for this is the uncertainty principle. Unless something is forbidden, quantum effects and fluctuations will eventually make it possible if we wait long enough. Thus, unless there is a law forbidding it, it will eventually occur.)

  Michio Kaku

  Kings, Science, Epic

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• Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reality, Perception, Principles

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

  Edward Witten

  Principles, Doe, Unexpected

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• In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise.
  On an implication of the uncertainty principle.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Future, Law, Principles

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• In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

  Stephen Hawking

  Discovery, Law, Principles

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.150, Random House

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• One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

  Edward Teller

  Future, Science, Principles

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.235, Basic Books

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• Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

  Stephen Hawking

  Small Numbers, Important, Principles

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