There Are Some Things So Serious You

A Visitor To Niels Bohr's Country Cottage, Noticing A Horseshoe Hanging On The Wall, Teasing The Eminent Scientist About This Ancient Superstition. "can It Be True That You, Of All People, Believe It Will Bring You Luck?' 'of Course Not,' Replied Bohr, 'but I Understand It Brings You Luck Whether You Believe It Or Not.'

It Is, Indeed, Perhaps The Greatest Prospect Of Humanistic Studies To Contribute Through An Increasing Knowledge Of The History Of Cultural Development To That Gradual Removal Of Prejudices Which Is The Common Aim Of All Science.

The Opposite Of A Fact Is Falsehood, But The Opposite Of One Profound Truth May Very Well Be Another Profound Truth.

Those Who Are Not Shocked When They First Come Across Quantum Theory Cannot Possibly Have Understood It.

It Is Wrong To Think That The Task Of Physics Is To Find Out How Nature Is. Physics Concerns What We Say About Nature.