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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.

Werner Heisenberg

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
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
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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Anything Discovery Gret Indifference Occur People Skeptical Surprise
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 HEISENBERG

Atom Language Ordinary Problem Some Speak Structure Way
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
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.
WERNER HEISENBERG

Available Bomb Country Information Least People Person Privilege Understand United State Until
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
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
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.
WERNER HEISENBERG

Astrophysics Challenge Consider Field Gravitational Mention Perhaps Property Pulsar Quasar Wave
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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Expose Method Nature Observe Question
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
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
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.
WERNER HEISENBERG

Abstract Although Causaully Demand Divison Formation Fulfill Permit Require Subject Theory Traditional
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
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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Anyone Century Even Influence Physical Scientist Stronger That
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.
WERNER HEISENBERG

Accurate Analog Case Difficulty Experiment Limit Mental Particular Picture Solution Validate Wave

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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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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