Niels Bohr Quotes
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When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum 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.'
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One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
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If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be
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A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.
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Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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