Amiable Quote by Albert Einstein

“I have chosen to talk about one of the founder fathers of twentieth-century physics, Niels Bohr, because in both these respects he was a…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Bohr proposed once that the goal of science is not universal truth. Rather, he argued, the modest but relentless goal of science is “the…

— Richard Rhodes

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man;…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the…

— Werner Heisenberg

“It isn't just that Bohr's atom with its electron "orbits" is a false picture; all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy…

— John Gribbin

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

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

— Murray Gell-Mann

“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet,” the Danish Nobel physicist Niels Bohr once said.”

— Satya Nadella

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some…

— Noam Chomsky

“After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom would be solved when physicists had…

— Arnold Sommerfeld

Leave the atom alone.

— Anonymous

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to…

— Johannes Stark