Wikiquote cites Otto Robert Frisch’s What Little I Remember (1979), page 95, for this remark about formal arguments. The wording there uses a comma where this circulating version has a semicolon; we have not inspected the memoir itself.
“No, no, you are not thinking; you are just being logical” — Attributed to Niels Bohr, reported by Otto Robert Frisch in What Little I Remember (1979), p. 95; memoir not independently inspected.
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Wikiquote cites Otto Robert Frisch’s What Little I Remember (1979), page 95, for this remark about formal arguments. The wording there uses a comma where this circulating version has a semicolon; we have not inspected the memoir itself. Wikiquote: Frisch memoir citation ↗
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Niels Bohr helped shape atomic physics. His colleagues also remembered his probing approach to scientific argument.
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