Science Quotes
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"The physicist has to wander through the lonely land of thoughts and numbers."Heisenberg, Werner
"Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between theory and experiment."Heisenberg, Werner
"The understanding of nature requires both mathematics and intuition."Heisenberg, Werner
"To understand the atom is to understand the universe."Heisenberg, Werner
"To be a scientist, one must cultivate both doubt and wonder."Heisenberg, Werner
"A scientist's responsibility is to seek truth, not comfort."Heisenberg, Werner
"The moment we think we understand nature, we have stopped understanding it."Heisenberg, Werner
"In every scientific truth, there lies a poetic truth waiting to be discovered."Heisenberg, Werner
"The most important tool of a scientist is not the instrument but the mind."Heisenberg, Werner
"Science is the art of asking better questions every day."Heisenberg, Werner
"The universe is written in the language of mathematics, but read with the heart of wonder."Heisenberg, Werner
"Every question we ask nature is a conversation, not an interrogation."Heisenberg, Werner
"The true scientist remains a child in the face of nature's mysteries."Heisenberg, Werner
"What we seek in science is the unity beneath the diversity of nature."Heisenberg, Werner
"Nature's laws are written in code; the scientist is the translator."Heisenberg, Werner
"The universe does not care about our theories; it cares only that we understand it correctly."Heisenberg, Werner
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, upon himself and upon his fellow scientists."Schrödinger, Erwin
"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be watered down."Schrödinger, Erwin
"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."Schrödinger, Erwin
"Nature does not allow us to say simultaneously whether the cat is alive or dead."Schrödinger, Erwin
"Science is a game with rules. But the rules are not set by nature, they are set by us."Schrödinger, Erwin
"The scientist's task is to find order in nature, not to impose it."Schrödinger, Erwin
"An observation is not made by everyone, but by a single observer."Schrödinger, Erwin
"Consciousness is the essential part of the world."Schrödinger, Erwin
"What we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."Schrödinger, Erwin
"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities."Schrödinger, Erwin
"The task of science is to develop the tools with which we may investigate nature more deeply."Schrödinger, Erwin
"Science has contributed immensely to the alleviation of suffering, but it cannot provide the ultimate meaning of life."Schrödinger, Erwin
"The greatest novelty of quantum mechanics is not the indeterminacy principle but something else."Schrödinger, Erwin
"The observer creates reality by the act of observation."Schrödinger, Erwin