Werner Heisenberg Quotes

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proved.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

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

I can only do the best I can from what I read from the book, and hopefully it translates on camera.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

How you mean? How you mean? What you know about the team? You just know what you get told girl I see behind the scene