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.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
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.
Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely you can see something else.
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.
Looking at something changes it.
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects.
Science clears the fields on which technology can build.
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.