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Sometimes a poor performance is better for enjoyment, because you can look at those things that were wrong and analyze them.

Werner Heisenberg

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.
WERNER HEISENBERG

Available Bomb Country Information Least People Person Privilege Understand United State Until
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
In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.
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Apply Atomic Country Drive Effirt Energy Engine Produce Scale Thousandth
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
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
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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Expose Method Nature Observe Question
In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.
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Become Country During Holiday Mechanic Quantum Stay Work
Certainly, in the course of time, the splendid things will separate from the hateful.
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Certain Course Hateful Separate Splendid Thing
The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.
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Bad Bearable Make Me Next Person Science Single Term Through Work Young
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
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
Bohr’s influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of Albert Einstein.
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Anyone Century Even Influence Physical Scientist Stronger That
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
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
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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Believe Blocc Business Case Country Good Poer Thing Tremendous Under Very
The end of the First World War had thrown Germany’s youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.
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Deeply Discover Disillusioned End First Generation Great Hand Older Path Rein Small Together Turmoil War World Younger

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