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#22, RE: A Boring Look Inside the Non-Process
Posted by MoonEyes on Mar-30-14 at 08:09 AM
In response to message #21
>That's a good one. The early nuclear physicists were a very quotable
>bunch - particularly Niels Bohr, who has many of my favorite science
>quotes, rightly or apocryphally, attributed to him, including:

It is, isn't it? Harsh, too. Imagine getting that one on your paper? Ow.

>"Young man, we are all agreed that your hypothesis is crazy. What
>divides us is whether it is crazy enough to be right."

Quite a fitting quote, considering it was Pauli he said it to. :)

>"If quantum mechanics does not offend you, that is an indication that
>you don't understand it."

I'm not so much offended by it as my brain has been quite thoroughly twisted about by it. I also don't understand it.

>and of course, the immortal
>
>"Einstein! Stop telling God what to do!"

Well, of course! If god wants to play dice, who is Albert to tell him he can't?


Very nice quotes all of them. Quotes of this kind are fun, real or made up.

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