Quotes About Uncertainty Principle

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. You never know until you look, said Nanny Ogg, expounding her own Uncertainty Principle.

Terry Pratchett

#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. Indeed, the uncertainty principle ensures that in the nature of things physics is unable to do more than make statistical predictions.

Neil Postman

#7. One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

Edward Teller

#8. In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

Stephen Hawking

#9. 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

#10. Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it
-Barrow's Uncertainty Principle

John D. Barrow

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

Edward Witten

#12. Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

Stephen Hawking

#13. And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

Jerry Coleman

#14. I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#15. The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

Tullian Tchividjian

#16. Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

William Shakespeare

#17. You can't make yourself fall in love, just as you can't choose who you fall in love with.

Alexandra Potter

#18. The people who lived beside the river for thousands of years, and whose history was intertwined with that landscape, have been very effectively excluded from ts recorded narrative.

Helen Humphreys

#19. Success in life means living by your values.

Russ Harris

#20. Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.

Rick Riordan

#21. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Robert South

#22. I got Lamborghini dreams, eastside nightmares
Movin white ... my ice is cool as the night air

Roc Marciano

#23. I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.

Roma Downey

#24. Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

Roger Scruton

#25. She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

Edith Wharton

#26. He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#27. You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

Edwin Land

#28. If you are committed, you can select your thoughts and thereby shape your life here on earth into something spectacular. The alternative is to give up this freedom and live a life of mediocrity dominated by uncertainty and suspense.

Tommy Newberry

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

Werner Heisenberg