where am I? alternatively, what am I doing?

According to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, certain pairs of physical properties---such as position and momentum, or time and energy---cannot both be known to arbitrary precision. The more precisely one property is known, the less precisely the other can be known. (paraphrased from Wikipaedia).

Now Heisenberg may have known a lot about quantum physics, but how much did he know about life?

Would he have anticipated / did he anticipate the application of the uncertainty (indeterminacy) principle beyond the quantum world? To life itself, perhaps? ...as in the following eight examples:

• The more (less) time you waste, the less (more) energetic you are.

• The more (less) energy you have, the less (more) time it takes you to do stuff.

• The more (less) you know about who you are, the less (more) you know about what you're doing.

• The more (less) you know about where you’re going, the less (more) you know about where you are.

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