Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohrwas a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 October 1885
CityCopenhagen, Denmark
god quantum-mechanics
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
learning thinking theoretical-physics
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
asks
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
development prejudice common
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
laughter laughing serious
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Nothing exists until it is measured.
inspirational encouraging education
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
inspiration understanding quantum-physics
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
real physics made
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
clarity accuracy exclusive
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
measurement property
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
alaska atoms way
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
crazy feelings statistics
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.