Tom Stoppard Image source: Derry Moore Sir Tom Stoppard is a British playwright who wrote a quantum spy story called Hapgood. Quotes by Tom Stoppard in Time OneNiels Bohr lived in a house with a horseshoe on the wall. When people cried, for God’s sake Niels, surely you don’t believe a horseshoe brings you luck!, he said, no, of course not, but I’m told it works even if you don’t believe it.Kerner. Every time we don’t look we get wave pattern. Every time we look to see how we get wave pattern we get particle pattern. The act of observing determines the reality. Blair. How? Kerner. Nobody knows. More about Tom Stoppard British Council Writers Directory “Sir Tom Stoppard interview” “Hapgood” MIT Assignment George Stoney Wesley Strick