The universe is actually made of quantized fields. Both particles and waves are imprecise models/approximations. There's no such thing as a particle, instead there are just excitations of this field which we cannot measure with complete accuracy.
I very much dislike this phrasing, because it suggests that it is just us that are not capable of building an apparatus to enable us to do so.
Imagine a gear transmission or a lever: You can transform distance into force and vice versa. It is up to your choosing if you want to go with more speed or more force by changing the point along the lever, where your transmission happens. It is not possible to build a transmission, which gives you the most distance and the most force simultaneously. In this system of transmission, one is the other, just a different perspective.
And it is the same with the location and impulse of a quantum. You can choose to have more information in the shape of location or more in the shape of impulse by changing your measurement (like the point along the lever). But you can't have both, because there is only a constant amount of information which is represented in a combination of location and impulse.
Actually, the uncertainty part of heisenberg uncertainty principle is a purely mathematical limitation (called Gabor limit) and only the Planck constant makes it physical.
Gabor limit: a • b >= 1/(4•PI)
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle: a • b >= h/(4•PI)
So the Planck constant is kind of the maximal sampling resolution of the fields / signals in our universe.