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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.

Werner Heisenberg

In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.
WERNER HEISENBERG

Become Country During Holiday Mechanic Quantum Stay Work
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
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.
WERNER HEISENBERG

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
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
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
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
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
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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Expose Method Nature Observe Question
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
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.
WERNER HEISENBERG

Anyone Century Even Influence Physical Scientist Stronger That
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
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
WERNER HEISENBERG

Explain Natural Nature Ourselves Science Simply
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
If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?
WERNER HEISENBERG

Atomic Bomb Bring Change Happen Make Terrible World

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