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