A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
NIELS BOHRThere are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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