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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Piyush Shukla

Word of wisdom by Werner Heisenberg: "Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can..." - What did the quantum physics pioneer and Nobel Prize winner really mean? His famous quote reveals a powerful truth about knowledge and human curiosity

Word of wisdom: “ Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. ” - German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg

In 1925, a twenty-three-year-old German physicist escaped to a small island in the North Sea to clear a fever. He stayed up until three in the morning working through equations. When they finally balanced, he said he was so startled he nearly fell off his chair. What he had just discovered would permanently change how humans understand reality—and permanently limit how well we ever could.

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