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 Read Quote
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. Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the manufacture of bombs in Germany could not succeed during the war. For this reason, they were spared the moral decision whether they should make an atomic bomb, and they had only worked on the uranium engine. Werner Heisenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
