An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them.
Werner Heisenberg quote Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability
Werner Heisenberg quote Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different
Werner Heisenberg quote The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language
Werner Heisenberg quote What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning
Werner Heisenberg quote Biography
German mathematical physicist, 1901-76
