Occupation: Physicist Birth: December 5, 1901 Death: February 1, 1976
The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite..
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them..
The very act of observing disturbs the system..
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….
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….
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows..
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….
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..
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 ….
The reality we can put into words is never reality itself..
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense..
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth..
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….
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….
The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it..
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
Looking at something changes it..
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..
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity ….
[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..