Nothing exists until it is measured.
NIELS BOHRPhysics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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