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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

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
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
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 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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Bad Bearable Make Me Next Person Science Single Term Through Work Young
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.
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Become Country During Holiday Mechanic Quantum Stay Work
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

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