Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. (Niels Bohr)

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience.

Niels Bohr

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