"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it."
— Niels Bohr

January 1, 1970

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In a 1952 conversation with Heisenberg and Pauli in Copenhagen; quoted in Heisenberg, Werner, Physics and Beyond. (New York: Harper & Row, 1971) p. 206.