(Brent wrote) " Neils Bohr had a horseshoe nailed over the door to his office. When a graduate student asked him if he believed the supersition that this would bring good luck, Bohr said, "I'm told it works whether you believe in it or not." "
------ " Once, at the afternoon tea, in the Institute [Copenhagen] E.Teller tried to explain to Bohr why he thought Bohr was wrong in thinking that the historical set-up of classical concepts would forever dominate our way of expressing our sense experience. Bohr listened with closed eyes and finally only said: “Oh, I understand. You might as well say that we are not sitting here, drinking tea, but that we are just dreaming all that.” " ’The Copenhagen Interpretation’, by C.F.von Weizsaecker, in ‘Quantum Theory and Beyond’, Ted Bastin ed., Cambridge U.P., 1971. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
