Quote by: Werner Heisenberg

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.


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  • NameWerner Heisenberg
  • DescriptionGerman theoretical physicist
  • AliasesWerner Karl Heisenberg; Heisenberg; Werner K. Heisenberg
  • BornDecember 5, 1901
  • DiedFebruary 1, 1976
  • CountryGerman Empire; Weimar Republic; Nazi Germany; West Germany
  • ProfessionTheoretical Physicist; Author; Mountaineer
  • AwardsOrder Of Merit For Arts And Science; Bavarian Order Of Merit; Niels Bohr International Gold Medal; Grand Order Of Merit With Star And Shoulder-Sash; Nobel Prize In Physics; Max Planck Medal