Werner Heisenberg
Formulated the uncertainty principle
Quotes by Werner Heisenberg
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but life without a purpose.
The universe is a symphony, and we are the musicians.
The human heart is a mystery, and we are here to explore it.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
We cannot observe the course of nature without disturbing it.
The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics starts from the paradox that we describe our experiments in terms of classical physics, but we describe the processes in the atoms in terms of quantum mechanics.
The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
The path of the electron in the cloud chamber is not a path at all.
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
The concept of the 'state' of a system in quantum mechanics is quite different from the concept of the 'state' of a system in classical physics.
The final result of the atomic theory was to show that the elementary particles are not eternal and indestructible units, but can be transformed into each other.
The world is not made of things, but of processes.
The mathematical forms of quantum theory are not directly related to the forms of the phenomena, but to the possibilities of the phenomena.
The idea of a 'final' theory in physics is an illusion.
The quantum theory forces us to give up the idea of a simple objective reality.
The concept of causality loses its meaning in the quantum domain.
The most important new result of nuclear physics was the discovery that the elementary particles are not elementary.
The world of atoms is not a world of things, but a world of relationships.