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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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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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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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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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Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists.
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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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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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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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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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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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Certainly, in the course of time, the splendid things will separate from the hateful.
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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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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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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
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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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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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