We are reaching little by little this sentence made by Werner Karl Heisenberg one of the founders of quantum mechanics.
"The first drink from the glass of natural sciences makes a man an atheist, but God is waiting for him at the bottom of the glass".
And i think this its correct, every time we think we know something we learn we know nothing.
I was skeptical of that “quote” of Heisenberg so I googled it.
My suspicions were confirmed.
First hit at Quora says the quote is apparently fabricated.
And the chatty AI dude said it maybe incorrectly attributed to Heisenberg.
Dyor
I am the same when it when I see purported quotes and this time I ended up at
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg. On reading through the text, I came across this gem:
"
The journalist Eike Christian Hirsch PhD, a personal acquaintance of Heisenberg... ...and that Heisenberg's children, Dr. Maria Hirsch and Prof. Dr. Martin Heisenberg, did not recognize their father in this quote."
That took me back to a time between semesters at university when I had a job as a summer student working at the same factory as my father. Up to that point in my life, I had only ever heard my dad utter a single profanity when he and I we were driving somewhere in his car and clouds of smoke started coming out of the exhaust. In fact, "Meatball" and "Meatball stew" were the absolute worst things my dad would call someone when he got angry and I wouldn't even think of using
those words myself. Rewind to an even earlier time when we had moved to a new town and on my first day of school, one of the kids told me, "fuck off" and I asked him what it meant which set off what I fondly refer to as the "great fuck off event". "Hey! This new kid doesn't know what "fuck off" means!!" For the rest of the day, everyone was telling me to "fuck off"; including some of the girls and before lunch time was over, some of the kindergarten boys were telling me to "fuck off" but nobody would tell me what it meant... of course by second recess, I had given up asking and decided that none of them actually knew what it meant; it wasn't so much that they wouldn't tell as it was they
couldn't tell me. I couldn't wait to get home to ask my mom because she knew all kinds of words - she was a stenographer! So as soon as I got home, I made the mistake of asking my mom what "fuck off" meant; my mom called me by my full legal name suffixed by "You just wait 'til your father gets home!" So, I figured it was a really bad thing to say but I still didn't know what it meant. I guess I persisted until my mom's voice got so frantic and high pitched that I could no longer hear it and when my dad got home from work, he didn't explain it to me either (not with words at least) but I was left with the impression that if I ever said it again... anyway, back to the summer job -
After I got settled in and figured out what I was supposed to do, I met my dad for lunch. A bunch of his buddies came and sat down with us to eat and my dad introduced me, I swear to god, after that introduction, I wouldn't have attributed the "quotes" from my father to him, even though I was hearing them first hand, and he wasn't even angry... he was just using profanity in casual conversation and lots of it too. I just sat back and pretended it was old hat for me; the last thing I wanted to hear was "Hey! This kid doesn't think his old man swears!" on my first day at my new job.
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