“Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advances made in this field by Dirac ... leave open the question whether it will be possible to satisfy the claims of the two theories without at the same time determining the Sommerfeld fine-structure constant.”
“Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advances made in this field by Dirac ... leave open the question whether it will be possible to satisfy the claims of the two theories without at the same time determining the Sommerfeld fine-structure constant.”
Werner Heisenberg
“One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that it is dimension-free. ...Werner Heisenberg once proclaimed that all the quandaries of quantum mechanics would shrivel up when 137 was finally explained.”
Leon M. Lederman, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?“Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.”
Werner Heisenberg“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.”
Werner Heisenberg“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”
Werner Heisenberg“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.”
Werner Heisenberg“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”
Werner Heisenberg“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.”
Werner Heisenberg“The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.”
Werner Heisenberg“There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.”
Werner Heisenberg“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
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