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.
NIELS BOHRIf anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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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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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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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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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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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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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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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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