Heisenberg Uncertainty Quotes

#1. Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

Edward Witten

#2. Call it the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Error: we can be wrong, or we can know it, but we can't do both at the same time.

Kathryn Schulz

#3. Believe reality is what you were taught was myth.

Nicholas A. McGirr

#4. The uncertainty principle "protects" quantum mechanics. Heisenberg recognized that if it were possible to measure the momentum and the position simultaneously with a greater accuracy, the quantum mechanics would collapse. So he proposed that it must be impossible.

Richard Feynman

#5. Okay, Polly," her grandfather said. "Let's have some normal, ordinary lesson time. What is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated.

Werner Heisenberg

#7. Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Donald Rumsfeld

#8. Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.

Don Kardong

#9. A version of the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you is present in every major religion for a reason. Relationships are the place where the mystical experience can become alive.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

#10. I'm not particularly fond of the Summer bitch, pardon my French,

Julie Kagawa

#11. In America, you assassinate president. In Soviet Russia, president assassinate you!

Yakov Smirnoff

#12. Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done' (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).

Boyd K. Packer

#13. Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.

Ben Yagoda

#14. He proposes, as a final solution to the question, the division of mankind into two unequal parts. One-tenth is to receive personal freedom and unlimited rights over the remaining nine-tenths.6

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. When it comes to my memory there are three categories: things I want to forget, things I can't forget, and things I'd forgotten until I remember them.

Cecelia Ahern

#16. "Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."

Werner Heisenberg

#17. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which boils down in popular discourse to saying that the very act of observing things changes the things you observe, works just as well, worryingly, when you look in the mirror.

N. T. Wright

#18. Well, you both went out with the blue balloon, and you took your gun with you, just in case, as you always did,

A.A. Milne

#19. Without patience, you will never conquer endurance.

Yiannis Kouros

#20. Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.

Werner Heisenberg

#21. When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up. (Zero/Hector Zeroni)

Louis Sachar

#22. By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body they had buried might have been a viral, but the person they had buried was a man.

Justin Cronin