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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Werner Heisenberg

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
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Applicable Concept Every Word Limited Range Seem
There is a great difference between discoveries and inventions. With discoveries, one can always be skeptical, and many surprises can take place. In the case of inventions, surprises can really only occur for people who have not had anything to do with it.
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Anything Discovery Gret Indifference Occur People Skeptical Surprise
With all this information available, at least to privileged persons, I cannot understand why it is generally held in the United States that we completely missed the basic principle of the bomb until after Hiroshima.
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Available Bomb Country Information Least People Person Privilege Understand United State Until
If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities.
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Enter Field Formulate Introduce Mean Observe Quality Truth Whole
I would like to mention astrophysics; in this field, the strange properties of the pulsars and quasars, and perhaps also the gravitational waves, can be considered as a challenge.
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Astrophysics Challenge Consider Field Gravitational Mention Perhaps Property Pulsar Quasar Wave
If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?
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Atomic Bomb Bring Change Happen Make Terrible World
It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data.
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Believe Concept Data Draw Emricial General Mathematical Our
The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form – the one of the particles, the other of the waves – are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.
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Accurate Analog Case Difficulty Experiment Limit Mental Particular Picture Solution Validate Wave
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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Expose Method Nature Observe Question
The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated.
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Fit Know Measurement Position Previous Refer Relation Time Uncertain Velocity
Sometimes a poor performance is better for enjoyment, because you can look at those things that were wrong and analyze them.
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Analyze Better Enjoyment Look Performance Sometimes Those Wrong
Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements of science insofar as it permits a division of the world into subject and object (observer and observed) and, hence, a clear formulation of the law of causality.
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Abstract Although Causaully Demand Divison Formation Fulfill Permit Require Subject Theory Traditional
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
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Explain Natural Nature Ourselves Science Simply
If the lecture is good, then everything is too smooth. That’s the same in music: if the performance is too good, you really don’t enjoy it, because it just goes by, and you can never penetrate into the heart of it.
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Everything Good Hear Lecture Music Nothing Penetrate Performer Same Smooth
I believe this uranium business will give the Anglo-Saxons such tremendous power that Europe will become a bloc under Anglo-Saxon domination. If that is the case, it will be a very good thing. I wonder whether Stalin will be able to stand up to the others as he has done in the past.
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Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists.
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Country Just Like Physicist Reason Report Show Your

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