I distinctly recall reading a quote from somebody talking about the debates between Bohr and Einstein, in which Einstein invented ingenious thought experiments to measure two non-commuting observables (position and momentum, or energy and time) and Bohr poked holes in them. The comment was something along the lines of “Of course, Einstein was much smarter than Bohr, but Bohr won every argument because he had the advantage of being right.”<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, my google-fu is weak, and I can’t turn up a source for this. It’s too good a line to pass up, if it’s a real quote, but I don’t want to quote it in the book without attributing it to the proper source.<\/p>\n
Does anybody recognize this and know where it came from? Anybody have any ideas of what might’ve planted this quote in my brain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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