Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists.
WERNER HEISENBERGWhat we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
More Werner Heisenberg Quotes
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Certainly, in the course of time, the splendid things will separate from the hateful.
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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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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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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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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
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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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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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Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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