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

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    "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.
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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
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