Niels Bohr Quotes About Quantum Mechanics

Quotes about: Quantum Mechanics

• If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspiration, Understanding, Quantum Physics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

  Niels Bohr

  Laughter, Laughing, Serious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

  Niels Bohr

  Real, Physics, Quantum

  "Yoga Deepens Its Roots in the West" by Ravé Mehta, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

• If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Life, Science

• It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

  Niels Bohr

  Learning, Thinking, Theoretical Physics

  "The philosophy of Niels Bohr" by Aage Petersen in "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", Volume 19, No. 7 (September 1963), as quoted in Abraham Pais "The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery" (p. 24), 2000, and in Paul McEvoy "Niels Bohr: Reflections on Subject and Object" (p. 291), October 2000.

• How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

  Niels Bohr

  Thinking, Progress, Physics

  "Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, and the World They Changed". Book by Ruth Moore, 1966.

• Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Understanding, Selfless

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

  Niels Bohr

  God, Quantum Mechanics

• We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

  Niels Bohr

  Crazy, Feelings, Statistics

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

  "NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: Great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding" by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

• 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

• When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Atoms, Language

  Niels Bohr's response to questions on the nature of language during his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg (Summer 1920), as quoted in "Discussions about Language", 1933, in Robert J. Pranger "Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy" (p. 11), 1972, and in Steve Giles "Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory" (p. 28), 1993.

• Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Firsts, Physics

  "The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Volume IV: Causality and Complementarity" edited by Jan Faye and Henry J. Folse (1998); later quoted in Karen Michelle Barad "Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning" (p. 254), 2007.

• If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

  Niels Bohr

  Confused, Science, Mechanic

• Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

  Niels Bohr

  Dizzy, Mechanic, Quantum

• Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

  Niels Bohr

  Physics, Mechanic, Quantum

• Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

  Niels Bohr

  Mechanic, Quantum, Subjects

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