The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
WERNER HEISENBERGIn Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.
More Werner Heisenberg Quotes
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I think that if a United States of Europe were to be formed, it would be in our interests to fight for it, as all our old traditions would remain in such a united Europe, whereas if we were to start now as part of the Russian Empire, everything that had ever been in Germany would disappear.
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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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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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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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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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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
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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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In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.
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In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort.
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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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Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
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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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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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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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Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists.
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