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Léon Rosenfeld Quotes

1904–1974 Belgium

Léon Rosenfeld (14 August 1904 – 23 March 1974) was a Belgian physicist and close collaborator of Niels Bohr.

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Each word is a singularity, or is connected with a singularity, in our way of understanding existence.

A Question of Physics: Conversations in Physics and Biology (1979)

No physical concept is sufficiently defined without the knowledge of its domain of validity.

The refutation of Einstein’s criticism does not add any new element to the conception of complementarity, but it is of great importance in laying bare a very deep-lying opposition between Bohr’s general philosophical attitude and the still widespread habits of thought belonging to a glorious but irrevocably bygone age in the evolution of science.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Léon Rosenfeld (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.