Werner Heisenberg Quotes

you can make mean anything.

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

Designer' is meant to mean whatever it means.

I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

I'm the sort of writer who likes to leave doors open for readers.

We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong way... people can adventure a little.

You can only control so much.

All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.

Roles are extremely finite, but human beings are infinite.

You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.

The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

It all depends what you mean by.

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.

It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.