Werner Heisenberg Quotes

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

One can not impede scientific progress.

Modern civilization depends on science …

It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

Never bet against science!

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.

It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.