It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how natur…

Niels Bohr
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature. ✨ The philosophy of Niels Bohr by Aage Petersen in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 19, No. 7 (September 1963), as quoted in Abraham Pais The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery (p. 24), 2000, and in Paul McEvoy Niels Bohr: Reflections on Subject and Object (p. 291), October 2000.
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