Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHROne must always do what one really cannot.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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No paradox, no progress.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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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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