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.
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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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 quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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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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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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