Werner Heisenberg Quotes

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you.” —Werner Heisenberg”
― Hourly History, Werner Heisenberg: A Life from Beginning to End

“The German physicists knew at least so much about construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the manufacture of bombs in Germany could not succeed during the war. For this reason, they were spared the moral decision whether they should make an atomic bomb, and they had only worked on the uranium engine.” —Werner Heisenberg”
― Hourly History, Werner Heisenberg: A Life from Beginning to End

“It’s perhaps thanks to Hitler’s own short-sightedness and contempt for academics that Heisenberg was even allowed to speak freely at foreign institutions at all.”
― Hourly History, Werner Heisenberg: A Life from Beginning to End

“Such things might seem like an exaggeration at first glance, but totalitarian governments are not exactly built upon trust and transparency. On the contrary, they are built upon fear and the threat of violence.”
― Hourly History, Werner Heisenberg: A Life from Beginning to End

“I felt as if my world were collapsing. And now I made the sad discovery that men of weak or pathological character can inject their twisted political passions even into scientific life.” —Werner Heisenberg”
― Hourly History, Werner Heisenberg: A Life from Beginning to End