Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
Niels Bohr
Tag: Quote of the Day
25AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.
Werner Heisenberg
24AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
Werner Heisenberg
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