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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.

Werner Heisenberg

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
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
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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Country Disappear Empire Everything Fight Form Interest Old Tradition
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
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
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.
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Atom Language Ordinary Problem Some Speak Structure Way
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
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
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
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
Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.
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Confront Connection Dedicate Fit Harmonious Particular Search Spontaneously Whoever 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
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
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
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

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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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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