It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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