Werner Heisenberg — "It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the pro…"

It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consists only of processes involving exceedingly large numbers of atoms.
Werner Heisenberg — Werner Heisenberg Modern · Quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle

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From 'Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science', reflecting on the limitations of language in quantum physics.

Date: 1952

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