3 quotes
"It was about three o’clock at night when the final result of the calculation [demonstrating the sensibility of matrix mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock. That was ‘the night of Helgoland.’"
- Werner Heisenberg
Achievement
"In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland."
- Werner Heisenberg
Achievement
"Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it - more correctly - the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature."
- Werner Heisenberg
Nature