A question to Niels Bohr, asked to him at a seminar in Moscow:

“How did you manage to create such an excellent scientific school, which produced the most brilliant and talented physicists?”

Bor:

“Apparently, I’ve never been afraid to make a fool of myself in front of my students,”

The phrases “complexity”, “probability” and “probabilistic process” are the most common euphemisms of “scientists”, hiding a complete misunderstanding of neither the process itself, nor the causes that cause it, nor the ability to predict its results. But admitting their intellectual impotence to “scientists”, and even “with a NAME”, well, it is impossible in any way because of inflated self-confidence and preserving the “honor of the uniform”, therefore they resort to such allegorical expressions: “Complex”, “Extremely complex”, “Probabilistic” and other obscure phrases in order to inspire a sacred, servile awe of their “highest order of thinking and deepest education” to the rest of the herd of not so “learned” creatures.

After all, how much effort and time they themselves put into collecting unnecessary junk dogmas of “Sacred Pseudoscientific Scripture” in order, at every opportunity, to “say something” at another gathering of the same rascals, the grandly called “Scientific Congress” or something else, no less grandiloquent.

It is not “education” that a real scientist needs, but the ability to process any seemingly insignificant information and extract meaningful conclusions from it.

The euphemisms mentioned have a long history.

For example, Shakespeare in Hamlet preaches something similar without the slightest argument. I have already written about this more than once, when Hamlet, with understandable indignation, asks a rhetorical question to Guildenstern: “Why do you think I’m worse than a flute?”

The meaning of the question is NOT ACCURATE! Not “WORSE”, but “EASIER”!

But this is just a mistranslation of Pasternak!

In the original :

« ’Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?»

“(‘Sblood is a swear word in old English: “Blood of God!”), do you think I’m EASIER to be PLAYED on than the flute?”

(The meaning of Hamlet’s ostentatious indignation: I am such a complex and sophisticated PERSON! HOW is it possible to compare me with some kind of pipe???!!!

Answer: YES, YOU CAN!

For Guildenstern is the same person as Hamlet, and not the flute, which he cannot play. But human “valves and strings” are well known to him BY THEMSELVES! And Hamlet’s are THE SAME TOO!

Indirectly, putting this thought into Hamlet’s mouth, Shakespeare also imagines that a man with his powerful brain is incomparably “more complex”, more multifaceted and diverse in his qualities than a simple flute pipe.

But in fact, there is no difficulty. A few primitive animal dominant algorithms rule ANY human being without any of the seven clever valves-holes of the flute of that time!

An episode from Eva Curie’s book about her mother, Marie Curie-Sklodowska, when she, along with her two daughters and Einstein and his son, took a walk on Mount Engadine in Switzerland in 1913:

“Einstein, preoccupied with his thoughts, imperceptibly crosses cracks, climbs steep cliffs…

Suddenly he stops, grabs Marie by the hand, and exclaims in despair:

“Do you understand, madam, what I need to know, namely, WHAT happens to a passenger in an elevator if the elevator falls into space…!”

Such touching concern for the passenger’s feelings causes insane laughter from the younger generation, who do not suspect that this imaginary elevator fall illustrates the abstract problem of “relativity”.

A WONDERFUL PHRASE FROM A TRUE SCIENTIST!

To be a scientist is to have a well–defined character: To feel mental and emotional discomfort from misunderstanding something. This means that we must constantly and steadily strive to explain, at least to ourselves, this incomprehensible thing, and quite convincingly and argumentatively, overcoming the cold and sober resistance of our second, acutely critical self!

THIS IS THE LANGUAGE OF REAL SCIENCE, not empty scientific chatter, equipped with a lot of “specific” and obviously incomprehensible terms, which hides a complete mental vacuum!

Of course, accompanied by dignified snuffling, thoughtful pursing of lips, puffing out cheeks and the OBLIGATORY edifying raising of the index finger, and so frozen in the pose of an oracle broadcasting to us fools on a terribly high pedestal!

A quote from the excellent book “Nerve, Muscle and Synapse” by neurophysiologist Bernard Katz:

We are talking about the so-called “glial cells, neuroglia”, otherwise called Schwann cells, named after the scientist who discovered them.

“The second assumption was that the glial cells surrounding the bodies of central neurons are involved not so much in the initiation and rapid transmission of signals, but rather in the long-term storage of information, that is, they are related to “memory” at the cellular level.

This idea is not without some appeal, but currently memory and glia have only one really common feature:

We know almost nothing about either of them!”

A wonderful honest statement by a real and HONEST scientist!!!

Here are examples of the REAL LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE, and not the quasi-scientific chatter of fools and crooks about “holograms of thoughts in our brains” or about the terrible “breaks in the non-existing magnetic lines of force” of the geomagnetic field, releasing energy on a cosmic scale!

12 II 2026