Shocking Sayings
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I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.
It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consists only of processes involving ex…
Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking.
When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.
Our proposition that the physicists on both sides should not advance the production of atomic bombs, was thus indirectly, if one wants to exaggerate the point, a proposition in favor of Hitler.
My Führer! I am most deeply shaken by the message that my son Erwin has been sentenced to death by the People's Court. The acknowledgement for my achievements in service of our fatherland, which you, my Führer, have expressed towards me in repeated a…
The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that hap…
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his w…
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
Stop telling God what to do with his dice.
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
We are suspended in language.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our b…
Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.