Occupation: Physicist Birth: October 7, 1885 Death: November 18, 1962
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time..
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry..
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?' ….
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field..
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future..
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet..
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself..
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness..
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it..
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it..
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary..
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….
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real..
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true..
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..
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions..
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think..
No paradox, no progress..
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning..
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it..
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words..