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
prediction
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. – Niels Bohr,1885-1962, Danish Physicist
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One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
hallmark negation
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
measurement property
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
interaction-with-others materials particles
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.
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If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
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Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.
future difficult
It is difficult to predict, 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.