Bohr ne mujhe sabse pehle yeh kaha ki unke sath kaam karna tabhi faydemand hoga jab main yeh samajh loon ki woh ek shaukhiya (dilettante) hain. Is achanak aisi baat par meri pehli pratikriya yahi ho sakti thi ki main ab vishwas na karte hue bas namrata se muskura dun. Lekin saaf taur par Bohr apni baat par gambhir the. Unne samjhaya ki unhe har naye sawaal ki shuruat poori tarah se ajnabee ban kar, ekdum shunya se karni padti hai. Shayad yeh kehna behtar hoga ki Bohr ki sabse badi taakat unki paanditya (erudition) se zyada unki behad zabardast antardrishti aur soch thi
The first thing Bohr said to me was that it would only then be profitable to work with him if I understood that he was a dilettante. The only way I knew to react to this unexpected statement was with a polite smile of disbelief. But evidently Bohr was serious. He explained how he had to approach every new question from a starting point of total ignorance. It is perhaps better to say that Bohr's strength lay in his formidable intuition and insight rather than erudition
The first thing Bohr said to me was that it would only then be profitable to work with him if I understood that he was a dilettante. The only way I knew to react to this unexpected statement was with a polite smile of disbelief. But evidently Bohr was serious. He explained how he had to approach every new question from a starting point of total ignorance. It is perhaps better to say that Bohr's strength lay in his formidable intuition and insight rather than erudition
* Testimony in Niels Bohr : His Life and Work as Seen by His Friends and Colleagues (1967) edited by Stefan Rozental, p. 218; later in his own work, Niels Bohr's Times : In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity (1991)
* Testimony in Niels Bohr : His Life and Work as Seen by His Friends and Colleagues (1967) edited by Stefan Rozental, p. 218; later in his own work, Niels Bohr's Times : In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity (1991)
* Testimony in Niels Bohr : His Life and Work as Seen by His Friends and Colleagues (1967) edited by Stefan Rozental, p. 218; later in his own work, Niels Bohr's Times : In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity (1991)
Pragati se uljhan paida hoti hai aur uljhan se pragati, aur yeh silsila bina kisi aaram ke chalta rehta hai. Itne saare bade vikaason mein se har ek ne der-sabeer, aur aksar jaldi hi, nayi samasyaayein khadi kar di hain. Yeh uljhanein, jo kabhi bhi do baar ek jaisi nahi hoti, koi shok manane ki cheez nahi hain. Balki, jo log isme hissa lete hain, unhe yeh ek saubhagya ki tarah mehsoos hota hai
Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances … created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege
Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances … created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege
* Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988)], p. 4 <small> </small>
* Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988)], p. 4 <small> </small>
* Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988)], p. 4 <small> </small>
Vartaman mein ki ja rahi kuch saiddhantik khojein aage chalkar bas kuch samay ka shauk ya waham sabit hongi
A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies
A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies
* Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988), p. 45
* Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988), p. 45
* Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988), p. 45
Kisi khoj ko kar lena zaroori nahi ki us khoj ko samajh lena bhi ho. Na sirf Planck balki doosre bhautik-shastri bhi shuruat mein is baat se hairaan the ki is naye siddhant ka asli sandarbh ya paridrishya aakhir hai kya
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were initially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were initially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was
* Referring to the difficulties physicists experienced understanding the discovery that energy exchange is quantized, in Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988), p. 134
* Referring to the difficulties physicists experienced understanding the discovery that energy exchange is quantized, in Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988), p. 134
* Referring to the difficulties physicists experienced understanding the discovery that energy exchange is quantized, in Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988), p. 134
* Address given in Copenhagen "Physics in Denmark: The First Four Hundred Years" (6 March 1996)]
* Address given in Copenhagen "Physics in Denmark: The First Four Hundred Years" (6 March 1996)]
* Address given in Copenhagen "Physics in Denmark: The First Four Hundred Years" (6 March 1996)]