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 an now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on, Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of though, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.

His thinking on Dirac's theory and further development of the theory were set forth in two papers. Per Heisenberg. In Heisenberg's tenure at Leipzig the quality of doctoral students post-graduate and research associates who studied and worked with Heisenberg there is attested to by the acclaim later earned by these people; at various times they included: Erich Bagge Felix Bloch Ugo Fano Siegfried Flügge William Vermillion Houston Friedrich Hund Robert S.

He also made important contributions to the theories of the hydrodynamics of turbulent flows the atomic nucleus ferromagnetism cosmic rays and subatomic particles and he was instrumental in planning the first West German nuclear reactor at Karlsruhe together with a research reactor in Munich in 1957. Heisenberg along with Max Born and Pascual Jordan set forth the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics in 1925. Considerable controversy surrounds his work on atomic research during World War II.