Werner Heisenberg

“He began to see that the recognition of relativity, interconnectedness, and impermanence as fundamental aspects of physical reality, which had been so difficult for himself and his fellow physicists, was the very basis of the Indian spiritual traditions.”

“There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole , the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality . Heisenberg's praise for Ruth Anshen's book Biography of An Idea found on the back cover”

“Do you believe in a personal God?”

“The problem of values is nothing but the problem of our acts, goals and morals. It concerns the compass by which we must steer our ship if we are to set a true course through life. The compass itself has been given different names by various religions and philosophies: happiness, the will of God, the meaning of life”

“In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas”

“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them. Ein Fachmann ist ein Mann, der einige der gröbsten Fehler kennt, die man in dem betreffenden Fach machen kann, und der sie deshalb zu vermeiden versteht.”

“Kein Chaos, aus dem nicht wieder Ordnung würde”

“Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables . Die Quantentheorie ist so ein wunderbares Beispiel dafür, daß man einen Sachverhalt in völliger Klarheit verstanden haben kann und gleichzeitig doch weiß, daß man nur in Bildern und Gleichnissen von ihm reden kann.”

“Critique of the Physical Concepts of the Corpuscular Theory”

“Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik”