Thursday, October 7, 2010

Giddly meandering . . .

Today is the birthday of Niels Henrik David Bohr ( October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962), physicist. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922. Niels Bohr has been described as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century.

"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."
- Niels Bohr

"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
- Niels Bohr

"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."
- Niels Bohr

“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

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
- Niels Bohr

"
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."
- Niels Bohr

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