It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
Werner Heisenberg
Tag: Quote of the Day
23AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct “actuality” of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.
Werner Heisenberg
22AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
Werner Heisenberg
21AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
The conception of objective reality … has thus evaporated … into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.
Werner Heisenberg
20AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
Werner Heisenberg
19AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Werner Heisenberg
18AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
Isaac Newton
17AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
16AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
14AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton