(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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
