Only those revolutions in science will prove fruitful and beneficial whose investigators try to change as little as possible and limit themselves to the solution of a particular and clearly defined problem. Any attempt to make a clean sweep of everything or to change things arbitrarily leads to utter confusion.


Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations, Chapter 12 (p. 148), Harper & Row, Publishers. 1971

Werner Heisenberg Quotes

Only those revolutions in science will prove fruitful and beneficial whose investigators try to change as little as possible and limit themselves to...

Only those revolutions in science will prove fruitful and beneficial whose investigators try to change as little as possible and limit themselves to...

Only those revolutions in science will prove fruitful and beneficial whose investigators try to change as little as possible and limit themselves to...

Only those revolutions in science will prove fruitful and beneficial whose investigators try to change as little as possible and limit themselves to...