It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
NIELS BOHRTruth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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No paradox, no progress.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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