Werner Heisenberg Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

2. Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values. Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

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

4. I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?

5. If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli's analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists. Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

6. In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I an now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on, Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of though, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.

7. My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

8. Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. Across the Frontiers

9. Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.

10. The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.

11. We can never know anything.

12. Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values. Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science