No paradox, no progress.
NIELS BOHROne must always do what one really cannot.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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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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