Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding … - Werner Heisenberg

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It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

Werner Heisenberg

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

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Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

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When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

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The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

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