Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
NIELS BOHRAn expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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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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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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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.
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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