We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas — and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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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
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Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, “Who are we?”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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