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“One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible…” quote by Niels Bohr — Download Open image

“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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