Occupation: Physicist Birth: December 5, 1901 Death: February 1, 1976
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows..
By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no ….
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense..
"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain.".
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary s….
Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end….
Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'unde….
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..
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else..
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it..
Looking at something changes it..
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning..
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think..
The reality we can put into words is never reality itself..
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts..
Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much abo….
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won..
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions abo….
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth..
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity ….