Niels Bohr Quotes About Quantum Mechanics
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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
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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.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.
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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 very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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