Werner Heisenberg Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that 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

  Mistake, People, Experts

• 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

  Mistake, Reality, Errors

  "Physics from Wholeness : Dynamical Totality as a Conceptual Foundation for Physical Theories". Book by Barbara Piechocinska, 2005.

• An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Mistake, Failure, Math

  Der Teil und das Ganze ("The Part and the Whole," 1969) ch. 17 (translated by A. J. Pomerans in 1971 as Physics and Beyond)

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