When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. ✨ Niel…

Niels Bohr
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. ✨ Niels Bohr's response to questions on the nature of language during his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg (Summer 1920), as quoted in Discussions about Language, 1933, in Robert J. Pranger Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy (p. 11), 1972, and in Steve Giles Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory (p. 28), 1993.
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