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“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

When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description.…

— Niels Bohr

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues…

— Albert Einstein

“In other words, there is no single underlying reality that is independent of our observations. “It is wrong to think that the task of…

— Walter Isaacson

“Quantum mechanics, for example, shows us that we are not as separate from the rest of the world as we once thought. Particle physics…

— Georg Feuerstein

“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

“The lack of time and space in our sense of these concepts does not mean that nothing exists beyond the spacetime continuum.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against…

— Nikola Tesla

“My target is a comprehensive, speculative world picture that is reached by extrapolation from some of the discoveries of biology, chemistry, and physics--a particular…

— Thomas Nagel

Someday, when the ultimate laws of physics are in our grasp, we may discover that the notion of time isn't actually essential. Time might…

— Sean M. Carroll

“Light — i.e. space — is the structure of time, the essence of existence. The stuff of physics does not involve time. Orthodox contemporary…

— Eric Bredesen

[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