Niels Bohr Quotes About Observation

Quotes about: Observation

• The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.

  Niels Bohr

  Space, Unions, Causality

• The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.

  Niels Bohr

  Simple, Light, Years

  Niels Bohr (1934). “Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays”, p.2, CUP Archive

• An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Reality, Agency

  Niels Bohr (2011). “Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays with an Introductory Survey”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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