Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohrwas a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 October 1885
CityCopenhagen, Denmark
confused science mechanic
If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
physics mechanic quantum
Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.
future difficult
It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
spiritual idiot
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be
science predictions difficult
Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
independent judgement tasks
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.
nature thinking tasks
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'
technology years opposites
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
butterfly color wings
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.
dizzy mechanic quantum
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.
nature real essence
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
science reality agency
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
spiritual opposites two
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth
merely quotes
You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.