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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. Werner Heisenberg
Great People Case Only Inventions Take Had Between Always Occur Surprises Discoveries Difference Anything Place Skeptical Really Who Many
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. Werner Heisenberg
Good Business Will Power Become Past Believe Others Tremendous Able Case Give Anglo-Saxon Good Thing He Up Very Wonder Domination Done In The Past Whether Uranium Stalin Stand Stand Up Europe Thing
The Anglo-Americans want the balance of power in Eurasia. The only balance of power they can achieve now is the whole of Europe against Russia. The only choice for us is either to join this Western European bloc or join in with Russia. Werner Heisenberg
Balance Achieve Power Russia Only Join Balance Of Power Western Want Either Against Us Choice Europe European Whole Now
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. Werner Heisenberg
Fight Old Think Our Everything States Would Would-Be Russian Remain Had Part Disappear Empire Were Been Traditions Germany Whereas Formed Interests Europe Now United Ever United States Start
In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland. Werner Heisenberg
Out Stay Became Quantum Quantum Mechanics Holiday Worked Mechanics
For Germany, the war was like an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary. The loss of the war was as certain as the loss of an end game under these conditions. Werner Heisenberg
War Game Possessed Castle Like Adversary She Chess Loss Conditions End Germany Than Which Certain Less Her
If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this? Werner Heisenberg
Change World Made Would About Atomic Terrible Knows Happen Who Bombs Bring
According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature. Wilhelm Wien
Energy Temperature Kinetic Absolute According Mean Measure Molecule Theory Gases
As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackless region confronting us with obstacles which even the most astute of us are almost at a loss to tackle. Wilhelm Wien
Pure Enter Astute Tackle Step Almost Soon Boundaries Obstacles Beyond Most Loss Established Which Region Confronting Us Theory Even
It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time. Willard Boyle
Time Great Me Experience Wonderful Phone Post Old Wife Honor Seen Old Friends Email Some Had Nobel Nobel Prize Betty Friends Wonderful Experience Prize Congratulations Many Awarded Received
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics. Willard Boyle
Physics Sometimes First Experiment Introductory Supervisor He Referred Texts Labs Lester Bell
Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements. William Henry Bragg
Atoms Fire Energy Our Those Composed Allow Check Up Hands Any Substance Whenever Movements Which Warm Cool
When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse. William Henry Bragg
Speed Back Air Has-Been Temperature Push Lift Masse Surface Been Off Liquid Pitch Molecules Boils Sufficient Raised Number
Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules. William Henry Bragg
Vision Atoms Increased Our Thousand Thousand Times See Ten Individual Discovery Times Speaking Molecules Now
A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected. William Shockley
Truth History Creation Following Give Failed Reveals Making Were Errors Expected The History Of Created Electronics Foundations Basic
The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated. William Shockley
Research Projects Objective Strongly Devices Been Influenced Which Choice Producing Useful Associated
My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson. William Shockley
Decision Telephone Immediately Would Would-Be Strongly Fact Supervisor Come Obtaining Influenced After Bell
Zero kelvin is the lowest possible temperature. At absolute zero, all motion comes to a standstill. It is obvious that a lower temperature is not feasible because there is no velocity smaller than zero and no energy content less than nothing. Wolfgang Ketterle
Energy Nothing Possible Temperature Feasible Absolute Smaller Velocity Obvious Content Because Motion Than Lower Lowest Less Standstill Zero
I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I'm willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits. Wolfgang Ketterle
Work Myself Character Me Patience Science Work Hard Overcome Ambition Reflect Think Willing Running Both Push Toward Limits Goal Traits Endurance Certain Hard Express
When I was around thirty, I met my own personal challenge and finished a few marathons under three hours, and I have completed many long bicycle tours. Wolfgang Ketterle
Challenge Three Long Finished Bicycle Met Few Own Thirty Completed My Own Tours Hours Around Personal Many
Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures. Wolfgang Ketterle
Me Confidence Sometimes Parents Chemistry Experiment Our Bit Must Ability Had Allowed Were Friends Done Quite Quite A Bit Explosive Basement
Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes. Wolfgang Ketterle
Nature Matter Beauty Sun Would Inventing Only Never Observe Miss Know Without How Surface Liquid Aspects Many Lived Imagine
Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them. Wolfgang Ketterle
Physics Easy Temperature Opened New Look Around Access Optical Very Cells Different Experiments Room Them Cooling Thermal Route Chambers Laser Vacuum
When air is hot, the molecules move fast and they have high kinetic energy. The colder the molecules are, the smaller their velocities are and, subsequently, their energy. Temperature is simply a way to characterize the energy of a system. Wolfgang Ketterle
Energy Colder Air Way System Characterize High Temperature Kinetic Simply Smaller Hot Subsequently Move Molecules Fast
In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor. Wolfgang Paul
Good Director Waiting Physics Students Institute Advisor Very Thesis Professor Appointed University
I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early. Wolfgang Paul
Life Father Chemistry Research Medicine Has-Been Laureate Having Student Had Studied He Nobel Became Chemical Scientist Been Up Familiar Laboratory Quite Where Grew Professor Early University
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