Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHRPhysics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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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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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 great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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