Werner Heisenberg Quotes

We see things as we are, not as they are.

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Observations always involve theory.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Science is nothing but perception.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

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

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.