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.
WERNER HEISENBERGIn Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.
More Werner Heisenberg Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
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In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.
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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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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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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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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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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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