{"id":17905,"date":"2021-01-17T08:44:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T08:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=17905"},"modified":"2021-01-19T02:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T02:24:04","slug":"paul-dirac-and-the-parrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2021\/01\/paul-dirac-and-the-parrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Dirac and the parrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found at <a href=\"http:\/\/chrome-extension:\/\/oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm\/http:\/\/citeseerx.ist.psu.edu\/viewdoc\/download?doi=10.1.1.369.1308&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf\">http:\/\/citeseerx.ist.psu.edu<\/a>\u200c\u200b<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Bohr bemoaned to Ernest Rutherford,\u200c \u201cDirac never says anything,\u201d Rutherford replied with a story about a shop owner assuaging a dissatisfied customer who had purchased a parrot that would not speak. \u201cPlease forgive me. You wanted a parrot that talks, and I gave you the parrot that thinks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 27.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found at http:\/\/citeseerx.ist.psu.edu\u200c\u200b When Bohr bemoaned to Ernest Rutherford,\u200c \u201cDirac never says anything,\u201d Rutherford replied with a story about a shop owner assuaging a dissatisfied customer who had purchased a parrot that would not speak. \u201cPlease forgive me. You wanted a parrot that talks, and I gave you the parrot that thinks.\u201d &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2021\/01\/paul-dirac-and-the-parrot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paul Dirac and the parrot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3594,1595,3593,3595,3598,3599],"class_list":["post-17905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","tag-a-lot","tag-ethics","tag-talks","tag-zero-width-non-joiner","tag-3598","tag-3599"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17919,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions\/17919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}