Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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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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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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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 you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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