What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless...
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the f...
The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.
In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I...