The Philosophy of Niels Bohr
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1963
- Publisher
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Volume / pages
- 19, 10
- Retrieved
- Jan 19, 2012
2 memes from this reference
Humans Depend on Language
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
Physics is About Describing Nature
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. 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.'