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Physics Quotes by Niels Bohr
- Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
- It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
- If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
- How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
- Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.
- In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is…
- When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It…
- Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
- The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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