An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
There are some
things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Niels Bohr in front of his blackboard
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