When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
NIELS BOHRWe are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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