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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.

Werner Heisenberg

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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Atomic Attempt Bomb Collect Constitute Country Decide Effort Large Part Production
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
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 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 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

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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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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