Niels Bohr Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• 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.

• We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.

  Niels Bohr

  Character, Reality, Ideas

  "Philosophy of Science", Volume 37 (p. 157), 1934; later quoted in Roger Gerhard Newton "The Truth of Science: Physical Theories and Reality" (p. 176), 1997.

• 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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