Niels Bohr Quote

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.


"The Unity of Human Knowledge" (October 1960)


Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying...

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying...

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying...

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying...