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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.

Werner Heisenberg

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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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Everything Good Hear Lecture Music Nothing Penetrate Performer Same Smooth
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
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
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
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
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Applicable Concept Every Word Limited Range Seem
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
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
Certainly, in the course of time, the splendid things will separate from the hateful.
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Certain Course Hateful Separate Splendid Thing
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
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
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
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.
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Abstract Although Causaully Demand Divison Formation Fulfill Permit Require Subject Theory Traditional
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
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
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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