Werner Heisenberg Quote

Words have no well-defined meaning. We can sometimes by axioms give a precise meaning to words, but still we never know how these precise words correspond to reality, whether they fit reality or not.


In: Paul Buckley and F. David Peat (eds.), Glimpsing Reality: Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology, Werner Heisenberg (p. 7)


Words have no well-defined meaning. We can sometimes by axioms give a precise meaning to words, but still we never know how these precise words...

Words have no well-defined meaning. We can sometimes by axioms give a precise meaning to words, but still we never know how these precise words...

Words have no well-defined meaning. We can sometimes by axioms give a precise meaning to words, but still we never know how these precise words...

Words have no well-defined meaning. We can sometimes by axioms give a precise meaning to words, but still we never know how these precise words...