In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
NIELS BOHRIt 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.
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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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