A Quote by Werner Heisenberg

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

Werner Heisenberg

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Only Stranger Than Think Universe

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Werner Heisenberg
German - Physicist
December 5, 1901 - February 1, 1976

When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.

Arthur C. Clarke

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

Pseudonymous Bosch

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.

Brad Holland

Life is a little easier for attractive people. Think about it: if a stranger smiles at you and they’re attractive, you think, ‘Oh, they’re nice,’ but if a stranger’s ugly, you’re like, ‘What do they want? Get away from me, weirdo.

Jim Gaffigan

The Universe is stranger than we imagine!

Albert Einstein

In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

Anton Chekhov

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

Reid Hoffman

There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.

Curtis Sittenfeld

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

John Scalzi

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

Greg Egan

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

Juan Goytisolo

We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Deb Caletti

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.