Niels Bohr - Physics Quotes

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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 can say about Nature.

Niels Bohr

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.

Niels Bohr

In physics... our problem consists in the co-ordination of our experience of the external world.

Niels Bohr

My starting point was rather the stability of matter, a pure miracle when considered from the standpoint of classical physics. By "stability" I mean that the same substances always have the same properties.

Niels Bohr