Heisenberg, Werner

"No elementary phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is a registered phenomenon."

"The scientist only imposes his own thought-forms onto nature."

"We must remember that it is the task of science to understand the general principles which all experience obeys."

"Science ceases to exist when it attempts to answer questions that lie beyond its domain."

"The analysis of the quantum mechanical uncertainty relation is in the tradition of idealistic philosophy."

"Every tool carries with it the conceptual world in which it was invented."

"What can be measured always depends on the way we ask nature the question."

"I am not sure that I can explain to you the situation because you are much too young and haven't lived long enough."

"The observer creates reality through his act of observation."

"Every kind of permanent institution is created by the geniuses against the will of the mediocre and the corrupt."

"The fact that we live in three dimensions might be a fact about the structure of thought."

"It is true that the truth of individual judgment and action is not always so certain as the scientific truth."

"The same organizing principles which manifest in the atom also appear to order the totality of things."

"All science is a refinement of everyday thinking."

"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."

"The questions that concern us most are precisely those which science cannot answer."

"If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty, we cannot help thinking they are true."

"What can be expressed in mathematics need not sound mystical when put into words."

"The greatest scientific advances have always come about through someone, at the crucial moment, doing things a new way."

"In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has always been claimed that religion must adapt itself to the current findings of science."

"The uncertainty principle refers to the degree to which the present state of knowledge permits a prediction of the future."

"In the work of science we are always trying to simplify our experience and fit it into patterns that can be expressed in exact form."

"We cannot know the present state of the world with sufficient precision to predict the future."

"The task of science is the creation of unity of consciousness and action throughout the world."

"What happens in an atom is no less interesting to an insect than it is to us."

"The fact is that all the problems of quantum mechanics vanish when we base ourselves on what is here and now."

"The first quantum leap was the greatest."

"Nature is made in such a way that it is absolutely impossible to predict the future to any large extent."

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

"We have always found that the idea of paying for education in the form of money is a sin against the nature of learning."