Occupation: Physicist Birth: October 7, 1885 Death: November 18, 1962
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it..
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning..
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions..
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it..
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words..
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness..
A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' ….
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet..
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true..
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real..
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are cre….
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future..
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary..
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field..
Nothing exists until it is measured..
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think..
No paradox, no progress..
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry..
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are..
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself..
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it..