Considered one of the most extraordinary statements of modern physics, theHeisenberg Uncertainty Principle has had a great seductive power on scholarsof different disciplines. Its popularity, especially in the field of the social sciences,has been all the more striking as it related to a real transfiguration of itsimplications. In particular, its connection and conformity to the dictates ofcognitive relativism and to the simple interaction between observing and observedsystems.