Niels Bohr Quotes

In quantum mechanics...an observation here and now changes in general the 'state' of the observed system....I consider the unpredictable change of the state by a single observation...to be an abandonment of the idea of the isolation of the observer from the course of physical events outside himself.

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

If you can fathom quantum mechanics without getting dizzy, you don't get it
Et kvantebitte spring nærmere supercomputeren

كف عن إخبار الرب عما يجب عليه ان يفعله

Perhaps I have found out a little about the structure of atoms.

الخبير هو شخص ارتكب كل الأخطاء الممكنة في مجال محدد للغاية.

Un experto es una persona que ha cometido todos los errores que se pueden cometer en un determinado campo.

Using the word much as it is used in atomic physics to characterize the relationship between experience obtained by different experimental arrangements and visualized only by mutually exclusive ideas, we may truly say that different human cultures are complimentary to each other ... each such culture represents a harmonious balance of traditional conventions by means of which latent potentialities of human life unfold themselves in a way which reveals to us new aspects of its unlimited richness and variety.

If a scientist does not understand a problem, he writes down many formulae, but as soon as he has understood it, there remain at most two.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do.

عكس مقولة صحيحة هو مقولة خاطئة ، ولكن عكس حقيقة مثبتة يمكن ان يكون حقيقة مؤكدة

I feel personally responsible for the universe's inevitable heat death.

The very fact that knowledge is itself the basis for civilization points directly to openness as the way to overcome the present crisis.

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

An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.