We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
NIELS BOHRWhen 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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