“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli's analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists.” ReasonPhilosophyRealityScienceInterestCriticismSkepticismFascinationSkepticalRationalismScientificWolfgang PauliPauli Book:Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science Source: Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science
“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.” RealityUnderstoodConceptsInfinite Author:Werner Heisenberg
“Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the course of the centuries a human language by which we can speak about the more remote parts of reality, and the coherent sets of concepts as well as the different styles of art are different words or groups of words in this language.” HumansWellsArtTwoDifferentRealityFormCoursesSpeakLanguageProcessGroupsCenturyStyleConceptsArt And ScienceDifferent StylesHuman Language Author:Werner Heisenberg
“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” ThinkingRealityScienceReligionUniverseMathematicsStrangerPhysicsEngineering Author:Werner Heisenberg
“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.” ShouldWholeRealityHumanityMistakeFundamentalsErrorsUnitySeparating Author:Werner Heisenberg
“The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.” RealityScienceKnowledgeBehaviorMathematicsObjectivesClarityConceptionParticlesTransparentObjective Reality Author:Werner Heisenberg
