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Niels Bohr1885–1962

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Niels Bohr on science

In a 1952 conversation with Heisenberg and Pauli in Copenhagen; quoted in Heisenberg, Werner, Physics and Beyond. (New York: Harper & Row, 1971) p. 206.

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