There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
NIELS BOHRWe all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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No paradox, no progress.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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