Niels Bohr Quotes About Quantum Physics

Quotes about: Quantum Physics

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.'

  Niels Bohr

  Nature, Science, Thinking

• 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.

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

  Niels Bohr

  Physics, Mechanic, Quantum

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