Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
NIELS BOHRSometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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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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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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