Werner Heisenberg Quotes on Knowledge

3 quotes

  1. Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.

  2. The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.

  3. Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.'

    #14 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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