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== Philosophy ==
Heisenberg disse que Bohr readera the"primeiramente 19th-centuryum Danishfilósofo, não um físico".{{sfn|Honner|1982|p=1}} Bohr leu o filósofo dinamarquês do século XIX, adepto do [[Christianexistencialismo existentialistcristão]] philosopher, [[Søren Kierkegaard]]. [[Richard Rhodes]] arguedargumentou inem ''[[The Making of the Atomic Bomb]]'' thatque Bohr wasfoi influencedinfluenciado bypor Kierkegaard throughatravés de Høffding.{{sfn|Rhodes|1986|p=60}} InEm 1909, Bohr sentdeu hisa brotherseu Kierkegaard'sirmão a obra ''[[StagesEstádios onno Life'sCaminho da WayVida]]'' asde aKierkegaard birthdaycomo giftpresente de aniversário. InEm theuma enclosedcarta letteranexada, Bohr wrote,escreveu: "ItÉ isa theúnica onlycoisa thingque Itenho havepara tomandar sendpara homecasa; butmas Ieu do not believe thatnão itacredito wouldque beseria verymuito easyfácil toencontrar findqualquer anythingcoisa better melhor;... Ieu evenaté thinkacredito itque isé oneuma ofdas thecoisas mostmais delightfulencantadoras thingsque Ieu havejá ever readli." Bohr enjoyedgostava Kierkegaard'sda languagelinguagem ande literarydo styleestilo literário de Kierkegaard, butmas mentionedmencionou thatque heele hadtinha somealgumas disagreementdiscordâncias withcom a [[PhilosophyFilosofia ofde Søren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard'sfilosofia philosophyde Kierkegaard]].{{sfn|Faye|1991|p=37}} Some of Bohr's biographers suggested that this disagreement stemmed from Kierkegaard's advocacy of Christianity, while Bohr was an [[atheist]].{{sfn|Stewart|2010|p=416}}<ref name="Aaserud-Heilbron-2013-a">{{harvnb|Aaserud|Heilbron|2013|pp=159–160}}: "A statement about religion in the loose notes on Kierkegaard may throw light on the notion of wildness that appears in many of Bohr's letters. 'I, who do not feel in any way united with, and even less, bound to a God, and therefore am also much poorer [than Kierkegaard], would say that the good [is] the overall lofty goal, as only by being good [can one] judge according to worth and right.'"</ref><ref name="Aaserud-Heilbron-2013-b">{{harvnb|Aaserud|Heilbron|2013|p=110}}: "Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately, humankind in general, are common traits of the Jewish intellectual. So too is a well-fortified atheism. Bohr ended with no religious belief and a dislike of all religions that claimed to base their teachings on revelations."</ref>
There has been some dispute over the extent to which Kierkegaard influenced Bohr's philosophy and science. [[David Favrholdt]] argued that Kierkegaard had minimal influence over Bohr's work, taking Bohr's statement about disagreeing with Kierkegaard at face value,{{sfn|Favrholdt|1992|pp=42–63}} while Jan Faye argued that one can disagree with the content of a theory while accepting its general premises and structure.{{sfn|Richardson|Wildman|1996|p=289}}{{sfn|Faye|1991|p=37}} Regarding the nature of physics and quantum mechanics Bohr opined that "There is no quantum world. This is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature".{{sfn|McEvoy|2001|p=135}}
== Nazism and Second World War ==
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