Werner Heisenberg Reality Quotations

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.

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.

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.

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

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.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.