Niels Bohr
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Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) Danish physicist; Received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922 for his contributions which were essential to modern understandings of atomic structure and quantum mechanics.
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- There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.
- As quoted in "The philosophy of Niels Bohr" by Aage Petersen, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (September 1963)
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- I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
- Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
- Variants: Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood it.
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word.
If you think you can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy, you haven't understood the first thing about it.
- Variants: Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood it.
- Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
- How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
- Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
- No, but I'm told it works even if you don't believe in it.
- When asked if he really believed a horseshoe above his door would bring good luck.
- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- The above quote is also attributed to various humourists and the Danish poet Piet Hein: "det er svært at spå - især om fremtiden"
- The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
- Notes: said to Wolfgang Pauli regarding electron spin.
- Variants: Your theory is crazy, the question is whether it's crazy enough to be true.
Yes, I think that your theory is crazy. Sadly, it's not crazy enough to be believed.
- Stop telling God what to do with his dice.
- A response to Einstein's assertion that "God doesn't play dice"; a similar statement is attributed to Enrico Fermi
- Truth and clarity is complementary.
- An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
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Quotes of others about Bohr
- Not often in life has a human being caused me such joy by his mere presence as you did. ~ Albert Einstein in a letter to Bohr (1920)
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