Werner Heisenberg Quotes

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

I get paid to do what I love. If you understand physics, the foundation of the atomic theory and relativity, you understand how the future is going to unfold. You understand what things are not possible. You understand why things work. I get paid to do what I love the most, and that is to work on the Unified Field Theory and to see the future.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics.

Now I know what the atom looks like.

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure.

They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.

One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.