“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”— Werner Heisenberg
“Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word ‘understanding.”— Werner Heisenberg
“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”— Werner Heisenberg
“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.”— Werner Heisenberg
“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.”— Werner Heisenberg
“I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.”— Werner Heisenberg
“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.”— Werner Heisenberg
“Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.”— Werner Heisenberg
“The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.”– Werner Heisenberg
“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.”– Werner Heisenberg
“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”– Werner Heisenberg