Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
NIELS BOHREvery valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also 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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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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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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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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