Analogy Quote by Niels Bohr

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts…

— Niels Bohr

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts…

— Niels Bohr

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot…

— Werner Heisenberg

“Poetry is the Quantum Mechanics of language.”

— Deborah L. Fruchey

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

— Bill Bryson

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

— Muriel Rukeyser

The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.

— Russell Brand

I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.

— Lewis Carroll

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in…

— Paul Dirac

“If the elements are the alphabets of chemistry, then the compounds are its plays, its poems, and its novels.”

— Loretta Jones Peter Atkins

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton