“It isn't just that Bohr's atom with its electron "orbits" is a false picture; all pictures are false, and there is no… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“In other words, there is no single underlying reality that is independent of our observations. “It is wrong to think that the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Margrethe: And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world?… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“And at that age, the only boys I didn’t think were gross were dead scientists – and it’s not like I wanted… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
“Fermi turned to Bohr with weary eyes and a slanted smile, and shrugged. “So we thought we had discovered new elements. We… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet,” the Danish Nobel physicist Niels Bohr once said.” — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
After I had written a paper or letter for Bohr, I always had the impression that I had learned something which I… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“We walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot ( she said and proved that she… — Otto Robert Frisch Copy Share Image
“Bohr Before we can lay our hands on anything, our life’s over. Heisenberg Before we can glimpse who or what we are,… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
A visitor to Niels Bohr's country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teasing the eminent scientist about this ancient superstition.… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“Planck...and Bohr...have invented systems containing electrons of which the motion produces no effect upon external charges...[N]ot only [is this] inconsistent with the… — G.N.Lewis Copy Share Image
“Bohr, for his part, supple pragmatist and democrat that he was, never an absolutist, heard once too often about Einstein’s personal insight… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“After Elsa’s death, Einstein established a routine that as the years passed varied less and less. Breakfast between 9 and 10 was… — Manjit Kumar Copy Share Image
“On his journey home from delivering his acceptance speech in Sweden the following summer, Einstein stopped in Copenhagen to see Bohr, who… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Bohr is really doing what the Stoic allegorists did to close the gap between their world and Homer's, or what St. Augustine… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“One of the leading figures in quantum physics, Niels Bohr, would sometimes tell his students, “The problem with your idea is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When Einstein died, his greatest rival, Bohr, found for him words of moving admiration. When a few years later Bohr in turn… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“Niels Bohr, the great Dane of quantum physics, was fond of saying, "It is wrong to think that the task of physics… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy.” — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
“Bohr proposed once that the goal of science is not universal truth. Rather, he argued, the modest but relentless goal of science… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Looking at the waves scudding outwards and getting lost on the horizon, he could not help but recall the words of his… — Benjamín Labatut Copy Share Image
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The nature of the 'collapse of the wave function' is determined by our self-concept stored in the subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr] [Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of… — Finn Aaserud Copy Share Image
“I have chosen to talk about one of the founder fathers of twentieth-century physics, Niels Bohr, because in both these respects he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Early in April 1933, the German government passed a law declaring that Jews (defined as anyone with a Jewish grandparent) could not… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
“After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom would be solved when… — Arnold Sommerfeld Copy Share Image
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![“[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided…” quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/34e/j-robert-oppenheimer-6978_collaboration_about-the-great-synthesis-of-atomic-phys_427709.jpg)
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